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Today, we are reminded of the women who remain unjustly imprisoned in El Salvador's prisons for suffering obstetric emergencies, and we celebrate the women that we, along w/our partners, @AgrupCiudadana, have freed. These are their stories:
Today, we are reminded of the women who remain unjustly imprisoned in El Salvador's prisons for suffering obstetric emergencies, and we celebrate the women that we, along w/our partners, @AgrupCiudadana, have freed. These are their stories:
1. Teodora del Carmen Vasquez was attacked while she was pregnant and fell on her stomach during the incident, causing her to suffer through a stillbirth. She was sentenced to 30 years in prison for aggravated homicide, forcing her to leave her 3-year-old son behind.
2. Ena Vinda Munguia lost consciousness after giving birth and awoke in a hospital, where she was interrogated by police & prohibited from seeing her baby. Even though there was no proof that she attempted an abortion. Ena was unjustly sentenced to 15 years in prison.
3. After going into early labor at home, Alba Lorena Rodriguez fainted while giving birth and lost her baby. The following morning, before she even had a chance to bury her child, the police came to her house and arrested her. She was sentenced to 30 years in prison.
4. Maria Teresa Rivera didn’t know she was pregnant until she had an obstetric emergency in the kitchen of her employer’s home. She was found in a pool of blood, reported to the police, and sentenced to 25 years in prison.
