Salvadoran activists hurl confetti, paint to protest new abortion trial
The HinduActivists in El Salvador threw eggs filled with confetti and sprayed red paint outside the attorney general's office on Monday to a protest a decision to seek a third trial for a woman accused of killing her stillborn son. The activists were protesting a decision to seek a third trial of Evelyn Hernandez, who was exonerated at an August retrial after she was convicted of homicide and sentenced to 30 years in prison. “We do not want Evelyn to be viewed as a criminal and persecuted,” protester Claribel Ayala said outside the attorney general's office. “We're going to stand with her until justice is done.” Hernandez, and from a small town east of the capital San Salvador, has said she was raped by a gang member and did not know she was pregnant until shortly before she went into labor in early 2016.
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