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Zacatecoluca, Jun 7 (EFE).- A Salvadoran woman serving a 30-year prison term for allegedly aborting the fetus she was carrying was released on Monday after the Attorney General's Office decided not to overturn the conditional release granted her by a court.The Public Ministry reported Friday that it would not appeal the ruling because "there are no elements on which to base the said appeal, since it fulfills all the requirements to provide her with the benefit (of conditional release)."Sara Rogel was sentenced to 30 years behind bars in September 2013 and had her sentence commuted last January, meaning that her sentence was reduced to 10 years, according to what lawyer Karla Vaquerano told reporters on Monday. (Camera: VLADIMIR CHICAS).SHOT LIST: SARA ROGEL, A WOMEN WHO WAS SENTENCED TO 30 YEARS IN JAIL OVER ABORTION, WAS RELEASED FROM ZACATECOLUCA PENITENTIARY FARM, IN ZACATECOLUCA, EL SALVADOR. SOUND BITE: LAWYER KARLA VAQUERANO (IN SPANISH).TRANSLATION: Sara was granted conditional release. Thanks to the commutation of sentences, she no longer has to serve 30 years in jail. Her sentence is now reduced to 10 years.
Imelda Cortez, a 20-year-old Salvadoran rape victim originally charged with murder after giving birth prematurely in a toilet, leaves court after being acquitted. IMAGES
The 55-year-old disgraced R&B singer R. Kelly, who was sentenced to 30 years in prison for leading a decades-long effort to recruit and trap teenagers and women for sex, will appeal the sentence, says his attorney, Jennifer Bonjean. SOUNDBITE
Tunisia, Feb 15 (EFE), (Camera: Natalia Román Morte).- In January, a Tunisian court handed three young men an unprecedented 30-year prison sentence for possession and use of cannabis, unleashing controversy and public anger in the country.A court of appeal will decide Tuesday on the sentence, issued on January 20 by a court in the province of El Kef, 200 kilometres west of the capital, which sentenced the three young men to the maximum penalty for having consumed cannabis in a sports stadium —which is considered a public space and, therefore, an aggravating factor-. FOOTAGE OF EL KEF AND PROTESTS AGAINST THE SENTENCE. SOUNDBITES OF:-SARAH LAABIDI, DETAINEE'S MOTHER, "What is an unemployed person going to do? Going to a café or consuming these substances. What is left in El Kef? As my son says, the factories have closed and there is no job. When I return home and see him sleeping it breaks my heart. Even when I feel like telling him to get up and look for work, I tell myself, let him sleep, he'd better not go outside."-MOLKA BOUDERBALA, DETAINEES' DEFENSE ATTORNEY:"We have a problem with this law in Tunisia because three out of every four detainees are drug users. It is not normal. This law has become a punishment for young Tunisians."-ZIED GHANNEY, DEMOCRATIC CURRENT MP:"If the State creates a weak link in this entire process, which is the person who turns to drugs, it does not mean that we are going to destroy him and put him in prison, that we make him a criminal. But we say to him: we listen to you, we suffer with you. I'm not encouraging him to do it, I want to help him get out of that situation."
Paris (France), Dec 16 (EFE / EPA) .- (CAMERA: Ian Langsdon) The process that since September has judged those who helped to commit the January 2015 attacks in Paris, in which 17 people died, 12 of them in the attack on Charlie Hebdo magazine, he concluded Wednesday with sentences ranging from four years to life imprisonment.
Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny is released after serving 30 days in jail for planning opposition protests, which have grown into a movement that has shaken Moscow since last month. Police were present outside the prison on his release but made no move to re-arrest him, as they have when other opposition figures were freed recently. IMAGES
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