Wednesday, May 11, 2016

El Salvador: Jailed in El Salvador after losing their pregnancies - NEWS

Amnesty International USA Human Rights Now blog
May 8, 2016
     "For many of us around the world, Mother’s Day falls on May 8th this year, which also marks Teodora’s 36th birthday. Teodora has spent eight years in prison, and will spend yet another birthday and another Mother’s Day, which comes just two days after ours, without her family.
      Amnesty campaigner Karen Javorski takes us inside one of El Salvador’s most notorious prisons to meet Teodora del Carmen Vásquez and María Teresa Rivera, women jailed after pregnancy complications."
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