The Georgia physician accused of performing unnecessary, nonconsensual gynecological procedures on immigrants in detention is pursuing defamation cases against two media outlets.
A jury is set to determine in April if NBCUniversal Media defamed Dr. Mahendra Amin by saying he performed “mass hysterectomies” on women detained at the now-shuttered Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility at Irwin County Detention Center. Amin is also suing Amazon’s podcast company Wondery for referring to him as a “uterus collector.”
The terms refer to claims made by Dawn Wooten, a nurse who worked at Irwin and filed whistleblower reports to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Office of the Inspector General about a lack of resources to mitigate COVID-19 and her concern about Amin’s gynecological procedures on detained immigrant women.
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