Detained Activist Nestora Salgado Moved to Low-Security Facility in Mexico City teleSUR English
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Mexico: Protests Demand Release of Nestora Galgado, Political Prisoner (teleSUR English)

After 24 days on hunger strike demanding better conditions or her immediate release, Mexican-American activist Nestora Salgado was transferred from a maximum-security prison in the state of Nayarit to a low-security facility in Mexico City.

“I'm on hunger strike because they are not respecting my rights, my human rights. They are not treating me like a human,” Salgado declared at the beginning of her hunger strike.

The independent community police leader from the conflict-ridden state of Guerrero began the hunger strike after she had been refused medical attention for over two years, as well as receiving what she and her family called psychological torture in the federal women’s prison.

“My sister would tell me, when I went to visit her, that she would never wish for anyone to spend one day in the maximum security prison, and well thank to God she has now been transferred, they are brining her here to Mexico City,” Cleotilde Salgado, sister of the political prisoner, said Friday morning.

Collectives, activists and the family of Salgado have organized campaigns for her freedom since she was detained in Olinala, Guerrero, in August 2013, after being accused of kidnapping.

Salgado, a naturalized U.S. citizen and defender of indigenous rights, was detained without an arrest warrant after she and other members of the Community Police detained local politicians and municipal police suspected of having ties with organized crime.

Federal charges would later be dropped, however she remains in custody under Guerrero State kidnapping charges.

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