Mexico Court Orders Release of Women Jailed for Aborting Child Illegally Agence France-Presse
go to original January 23, 2014

Activists hold posters that read, "For our right to decide", during a demonstration in support of an 11-year-old Chilean girl, whose 32-year-old stepfather has been accused of raping her, in Mexico City July 25, 2013. (Reuters/ Edgard Garrido)

Mexico's Supreme Court ordered the release Wednesday of a woman who served seven years in jail for aborting a child illegally, saying she did not receive due process.

The high court said Adriana Manzanares, an indigenous Tlapaneca who does not speak Spanish, was freed after conviction "due to several violations of due process, including the lack of an interpreter who spoke her language and understood her culture and worldview."

The attorney who helped secure her release was not immediately available for comment.

Local media reported that Manzanares had been sentenced to 22 years in prison in 2006 after authorities said she illegally aborted her fetus late in her pregnancy.

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