{"id":409656,"date":"2018-03-14T07:34:43","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T07:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=409656"},"modified":"2018-03-14T07:34:43","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T07:34:43","slug":"woman-freed-15-years-jail-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=409656","title":{"rendered":"Woman freed after 15 years in jail for abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">A 34-year-old woman in El Salvador has been freed after spending 15 years in jail for having an abortion.<\/p>\n<p>Maira Ver\u00f3nica Figueroa Marroqu\u00edn was released after her 30-year sentence for aggravated murder was reduced.<\/p>\n<p>Abortion is banned in El Salvador, a predominantly Roman Catholic nation, in any circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Figueroa always maintained her innocence. She said she suffered a stillbirth in a house where she was working as a maid in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>She was taken to hospital, arrested and eventually sentenced for inducing an abortion.<\/p>\n<p>Her parents, as well as journalists and activists, were outside the prison in Ilopango, near the capital San Salvador, to welcome her.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am happy to be with my family,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to study law to understand what happened to me and help other women,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 34-year-old woman in El Salvador has been freed after spending 15 years in jail for having an abortion. Maira Ver\u00f3nica Figueroa Marroqu\u00edn was released after her 30-year sentence for aggravated murder was reduced. Abortion is banned in El Salvador, a predominantly Roman Catholic nation, in any circumstances. Ms Figueroa always maintained her innocence. She [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":409657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[5664,17868],"class_list":["post-409656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","tag-abortion","tag-woman-freed-from-jail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=409656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/409657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=409656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=409656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=409656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}