Pressure Mounts to Free Washington State Woman Imprisoned in Mexico Zahra Farah - The Seattle Times
go to original June 17, 2014

Nestora Salgado speaks to community members at a gathering in Olinalá, in the state of Guerrero, Mexico, before she went to prison. (Facebook)

Nestora Salgado, of Renton, returned to the small Mexican village where she grew up to help a town gripped by drug-related crime and poverty.

Salgado, who was elected as a leader of a local volunteer police force, didn’t imagine the arrests that her group had made would lead to her own imprisonment.

For the past 10 months, the 42-year-old mother of three has been detained in a federal prison in Mexico.

She has yet to have her day in court, her lawyers say.

At a news conference Monday at Seattle University, U.S. Rep. Adam Smith, D-Bellevue, spoke out against Salgado’s ongoing detention without a trial.

He said the United States will do whatever it can to pressure the Mexican government to release Salgado, a naturalized American citizen who was born in Mexico.

Her family is also getting legal help from the International Human Rights Clinic at the Seattle University School of Law.

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