Indian Women Demand Compensation From Government for False Imprisonment Agencia EFE
go to original February 26, 2014

Since they achieved their freedom Alberta, Teresa and their lawyers have sought to repair the damage. (AP)

MEXICO CITY - Two Otomi Indian women are demanding that the Mexican federal Attorney General's Office compensate them for the four years they spent in prison on kidnapping convictions that were later thrown out by the courts.

Alberta Alcantara and Teresa Gonzalez, who are from the central state of Queretaro, said in a press conference Tuesday that the AG's office was trying to get out of its responsibility in the case.

The AG's office filed a review motion on Feb. 7 in an effort to get out of paying compensation and making a public apology in the case, the women said.

"I cannot believe that the AG's office does not accept the errors it made and I cannot believe that they keep saying it was us, even when we have shown that we are innocent, they keep insisting that there was a crime," Gonzalez said.

Gonzalez, Alcantara and fellow Otomi Jacinta Francisco Marcial, who operated market stalls in Queretaro, were arrested in August 2006.

The three women were later sentenced to 21 years in prison on charges they kidnapped six federal agents who claimed that the vendors took them hostage in March 2006 during an operation targeting sellers of pirated DVDs.

The Supreme Court ordered the women released from prison in 2010.

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