The victim of an alleged assault at an Ottawa transit station in August is asking why the incident was never made public despite being investigated by the hate and bias crime unit of the Ottawa Police Service (OPS).

The Aug. 25 attack at Blair station left Arfon Barow, a 64-year-old Muslim woman who wears a hijab, with injuries that she said are still healing nearly two months later.

"I want people to know my pain, to see what happened t o me," Barow said in Somali through interpreter Abdirizak Mohamud, director of the Suradway Parents' Association of Ottawa.

"W ith all the evidence that they have and the pictures that they have, they could see that I've been injured badly in this incident, that people need to be warned [that] this kind of thing is happening."

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