El Salvador releases woman jailed over abortion
By AFP
10 June 2021 |
8:50 am
Sara Rogel, sentenced to three decades in prison for undergoing an abortion, leaves Zacatecoluca Penal Center in El Salvador after almost nine years behind bars.
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