Salvadoran convicted of abortion was released after ten years in prison

the justice of The Savior decided to commute the sentence imposed on the woman who had an obstetric emergency and had a spontaneous abortion. The authorities accused her of aggravated homicide for allegedly trying to end the life of her son. She spent ten years in prison.

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This information was disseminated by the NGO Manuela Justice and Hope, which fights for the decriminalization of abortion in this Central American country. In addition to having been sentenced to 30 years, the justice decided to take her son away from her, the group assured in a statement collected by Europa Press.

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Drastically, women who suffer from miscarriages or spontaneous abortions are accused of terminating their pregnancy and, for the most part, are sentenced to prison.

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As a result of a long struggle by organizations and activists, Elsy, a Salvadoran woman who was unjustly convicted of suffering an obstetric emergency, has been released from prison and will be able to reunite with her family after spending 10 and a half years in jail. pic.twitter.com/zzv1Ia7Wb9

— Citizen Group #ManuelaJusticiaYEsperanza (@AbortoPORlaVIDA) February 9, 2022

What happened?

On July 15, 2011, “Elsy was working as a domestic worker when the health emergency happened”said the group in a brief statement.

However, that was not enough proof for justice, who “acted irregularly and its procedural guarantees”, they assure. “The presumption of innocence was not respected and he did not have a defense to watch over his rights,” they criticized.

“Although at Elsy he was released, the Surveillance Court did not act in a timely manner”, assured in the NGOadding that an interpretation error on the part of the Public ministry forced her to stay another month and a half in jail.

In the past two months, at least 5 women, including Elsy, were released after being sentenced for obstetric emergencies. On December 23, the Justice granted the freedom to Karen, Kathy and Evelyn and, in January of this year, it corresponded to Kenya, who had served a nine-year sentence.

Manuela Justicia y Esperanza assures that about 181 women with voluntary abortions “They have been criminally persecuted in El Salvador.”

In The Savioras in other countries of Americaabortion is still criminalized since 1998. Last October, the country’s Legislative Assembly rejected a reform that sought its decriminalization.

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Source: Elcomercio

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