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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.
People protest in Warsaw against Poland's abortion law, after the death of a pregnant woman. The country allows abortion only in cases of rape and incest, or if the life or health of the mother is in danger. IMAGES
Activists gather outside the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) in Costa Rica's capital San Jose, where for the first time in its history, a case will be heard about the legality of denying a woman access to abortion services. A woman identified only as "Beatriz" is symbolically squaring off against the Central American country of El Salvador, which enforces an absolute ban on the procedure regardless of the fetus's health or any risk to the pregnant woman. IMAGES
San Salvador, Sep 28 (EFE).- Latin America commemorated International Safe Abortion Day on Tuesday amid battles taking place in courts, across governmental bodies and on the streets.In the region, Argentina, Cuba, Uruguay, Guyana and four Mexican territories have decriminalized abortion.However, in Colombia, Chile, Brazil, Ecuador, Paraguay, Venezuela, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Bolivia and Peru, abortion is illegal except in cases such as rape, fetal abnormalities incompatible with life or risk to the life of the mother.In Haiti, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Honduras, the termination of pregnancy is totally illegal, and carries prison sentences for women who undergo the procedure and for those who carry it out. (Camera: VLADIMIR CHICAS). SHOT LIST: PEOPLE GATHER TO DEMAND DECRIMINALIZATION OF ABORTION IN SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR.
San Salvador, Jun 8 (EFE).- A Salvadoran woman serving a 30-year prison term for allegedly aborting the fetus she was carrying demanded justice Tuesday for other women who were accused and imprisoned in cases similar to hers.Sara Rogel was released Monday after El Salvador's Public Ministry reported that it would not appeal the ruling because "there are no elements on which to base the said appeal.She 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 her lawyer Karla Vaquerano told reporters on Monday. (Camera: VLADIMIR CHICAS).SHOT LIST: SARA ROGEL, A WOMAN WHO WAS IMPRISONED FOR ABORTION, SPEAKS TO THE MEDIA IN SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR.SOUND BITE: SARA ROGEL (IN SPANISH).TRANSLATION: Here I am, asking for justice for my other friends. They have stayed there and I want justice to be served in this country, because there are many people (women) behind those bars who suffer like I do. They have lost their children, their families were taken away from them and I want justice for them as well as for me. They are innocent, they have only been victims of the laws of this country.
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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