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Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office denies forcibly removing arrested woman’s hijab

The Santa Clara Sheriff’s Office denied Saturday that one of its deputies forcibly removed a hijab of a Muslim woman that was arrested and booked in a Milpitas correctional facility. The statement came days after the Council on American-Islamic Relations in the Bay Area (CAIR-SFBA) said the Muslim woman, Asia Aden, had her hijab “violently […]

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