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El Salvador frees woman jailed for homicide after having a miscarriage
The 38-year-old - identified only as Elsy - had served about a third of her 30-year prison sentence
Maya Oppenheim
Women’s Correspondent
9 hours ago
Elsy poses for a picture after being released from jail in San Salvador, El Salvador, 9 February 2022
(via REUTERS)
A woman in El Salvador who spent a decade in prison on charges of aggravated homicide after suffering a miscarriage has been released.
The 38-year-old, who has been identified only as Elsy by activists, was freed on Wednesday after serving about a third of her 30-year sentence.
El Salvador has one of the most extreme abortion bans in the world – pregnancy terminations are illegal in cases of rape and incest, when the woman’s life is in danger, or if the foetus is severely deformed.
The Central American country routinely imprisons women who have had accidents during their pregnancy, miscarriages, and also stillbirths - by considering such incidents as abortions.
The Citizen Group for the Decriminalization of Abortion in El Salvador, a campaign group, said the woman was arrested in June 2011 after she said she endured an “obstetric emergency”. Authorities accused her of having an abortion and she was charged with aggravated homicide.
More:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/el-salvador-prison-miscarriage-woman-elsy-b2012370.html?r=21660
