Committee Formed to Free Nestora Salgado, Former Guerrero Self-Defense Leader Cesar Arellano - La Jornada
go to original August 15, 2014

Defenders of the rights of women, students, artists and feminist announced the formation of a committee for the freedom of Nestora Salgado, former coordinator of community police in Olinalá, Guerrero, who, on August 21, will complete a year "of unjust imprisonment".

The activists denounced the "deplorable conditions" under which Nestora is being held in the federal prison in Tepic, Nayarit [far from Guerrero]. They said that she is the only prisoner who is handcuffed, she is hardly allowed to communicate with family members and just a few days shy of 12 months as a "political prisoner" she was allowed to see her lawyer for the first time.

Saira Rodriguez Salgado, Nestora daughter, demanded that her mother be transferred to a prison in Mexico City during the process, not one in Guerrero, because it would represent a risk to her safety.

Meanwhile, Trinidad Ramírez Velázquez, wife of the leader of the Peoples' Front in Defense of the Land, Ignacio del Valle [of Atenco, State of Mexico], said it is "absurd" that the former coordinator of the Community Police in Guerrero is accused of several crimes, including kidnapping, simply for speaking out.

Read the rest at Mexico Voices

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