{"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\/2018\/03\/woman-freed-15-years-jail-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman freed after 15 years in jail for abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"
A 34-year-old woman in El Salvador has been freed after spending 15 years in jail for having an abortion.<\/p>\n
Maira Ver\u00f3nica Figueroa Marroqu\u00edn was released after her 30-year sentence for aggravated murder was reduced.<\/p>\n
Abortion is banned in El Salvador, a predominantly Roman Catholic nation, in any circumstances.<\/p>\n
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
She was taken to hospital, arrested and eventually sentenced for inducing an abortion.<\/p>\n
Her parents, as well as journalists and activists, were outside the prison in Ilopango, near the capital San Salvador, to welcome her.<\/p>\n
“I am happy to be with my family,” she said.<\/p>\n
“I want to study law to understand what happened to me and help other women,” she added.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":409657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[107],"tags":[5664,17868],"yoast_head":"\n