Rights Groups Ask Mexico's Gov't to Apologize, Pay Damages to Indian Women Agencia EFE
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Teresa Gonzalez Cornelio (center) with her son (right) and Alberta Alcantara (left) appear at a press conference in Mexico City on April 29, 2010. (EFE)

MEXICO CITY - Human rights groups called Monday on the Mexican government to comply with judicial rulings by apologizing and paying compensation to three Otomi Indian women who spent time in prison on kidnapping convictions that were later thrown out by the courts.

Amnesty International and the Miguel Agustin Pro Juarez Human Rights Center have launched a campaign aimed at getting the Attorney General's Office to adhere to the terms of court rulings on the women, who "were victims of unjust acts by Mexican authorities."

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

The three women were 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 women were imprisoned for "a crime they did not commit," the human rights groups said.

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

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