Washington Woman Nestora Salgado Continues Hunger Strike in Mexican Prison Venice Buhain - The Seattle Globalist
go to original May 16, 2015

Nestora with Olinalá community police. (Organization Free Nestora Salgado)

Renton’s Nestora Salgado Garcia, who ran a community police force in Mexico until her arrest, has been on a hunger strike for more than a week, protesting the conditions of her two-year detention by Mexican authorities.

Salgado was arrested in 2013, after the community police force that she commanded in Olinala, Guerrero, arrested local a city official on suspicion of stealing property. The official complained, and Salgado was accused of kidnapping and organized crime by federal authorities and placed in maximum security prison.

Since then, her family and her supporters say that Salgado has been denied due process, and that she has been given limited access to her attorneys to fight the case.

Her family told The Seattle Globalist earlier this year that Salgado is innocent of the charges, her arrest was politically motivated and they expect a long court battle.

Earlier this year, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, a human rights monitor criticized Salgado’s imprisonment, saying that she has not been receiving access to needed medical care while in prison.

Politicians, including Rogelio Ortega, the interim governor of Guerrero, and U.S. Congressman Adam Smith, have called for Salgado’s release.

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