Raped, miscarried, arrested: Inside El Salvador’s ‘outrageous’ state-sponsored persecution of vulnerable women
5 years, 4 months ago

Raped, miscarried, arrested: Inside El Salvador’s ‘outrageous’ state-sponsored persecution of vulnerable women

The Independent  

Sign up for the Independent Women email for the latest news, opinion and features Get the Independent Women email for free Get the Independent Women email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Guillen, who is also a director at the Women’s Equality Centre, says this case is even more “outrageous” than similar instances in El Salvador. “She was already sentenced one time then appealed, and then she was released … but still the prosecutors took her to retrial; that just shows a level of malice to really use all the weight of the state to charge these women.” In cases such as Hernandez’s the state is the prosecutor, bringing women to trial for their supposed crimes. David Pressman, executive director of the Clooney Foundation for Justice, said: “When charges are brought without evidence, it raises concerns about a state’s compliance with international standards … and, in some cases, it can suggest an ulterior motive for the charging decision.” In the majority of cases the state investigates, the women go straight from the hospital to the jailhouse, even if they are haemorrhaging. “There’s no doubt this case set a precedent, it has also provided us with jurisprudence for future cases to be known and to strengthen the defence arguments against judgments of women already convicted,” Deras says.

History of this topic

Regional court faults El Salvador for denying a mother’s access to abortion, violating her rights
3 weeks, 5 days ago
El Salvador’s Congress votes to allow mass trials in gang crackdown
1 year, 5 months ago
Inter-American Court of Human Rights to hear abortion rights case for the first time
1 year, 9 months ago
Salvadoran women jailed for abortion warn US of total ban
2 years, 7 months ago
Salvadoran women jailed for abortion warn US of total ban
2 years, 7 months ago
El Salvador woman jailed following obstetric emergency: NGO
2 years, 8 months ago
El Salvador criminalises showing gang-related messages in media
2 years, 9 months ago
Salvadoran women tell of unjust treatment under abortion law
2 years, 10 months ago
El Salvador frees three women convicted of abortions
3 years ago
Abortion ban: El Salvador frees women jailed after miscarriages
3 years ago
Salvadoran woman freed from jail after 30-year abortion sentence
3 years, 7 months ago
Salvadoran woman jailed for suspected abortion released
3 years, 7 months ago
International court could press El Salvador to change abortion ban
3 years, 8 months ago
The abortion cases that could force El Salvador to loosen its ban
3 years, 10 months ago
El Salvador frees three women convicted for suspected abortions
5 years, 10 months ago

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