Released after being arrested for abortion after …

"I was very scared not to know when I was going to leave. I had never been to a prison. It was very difficult. Evelyn Hernandez says: Page 12. Evelyn is a 21-year-old girl who spent 33 months in prison in El Salvador, where she was sentenced for aggravated homicide after being delivered at the hospital, in the latrines of her home, in a rural community where she was living. is dead. creature who gave birth. "I think the laws are very tough and are more relevant to women in rural areas," says Evelyn. "They will have to amend the law and badyze the records of the 16 people who remain in jail because they are innocent," he adds, referring to other young women who, like her, face allegations of "no one". aggravated homicide after obstetric emergencies. The dialogue is short. It's sold. Since he regained his freedom, he has consulted more than twenty national and international media interested in his story. Among his projects, one of the first is to finish high school and choose a career. "I thought I was a nurse, but now I want to study something else," she says, perhaps disenchanted by the public health who sent her to prison, without any evidence and with a lot of prejudices.

Evelyn has always defended her innocence: she said she was badually badaulted, did not report her, and did not know she was pregnant because her menstrual periods came every month. In April 2016, at age 17, he felt abdominal pain, did not recognize the fact that it was contractions, went to the latrine of his home and there was delivery, with heavy bleeding. She fainted and her mother took her to the hospital.

In the hospital, they apply the protocol of attention and investigation on abortion. And as usual, those who apply it in El Salvador, considered suspected of having caused the termination of pregnancy. And they immediately reported it to the guard. She was hospitalized for six days and from there she was transferred directly to prison. In July 2017, she was sentenced to 30 years in prison. The decision was appealed by the citizens' group for the decriminalization of abortion, headed by Morena Herrera, who then filed an appeal in cbadation, last instance, before the Supreme Court. The Criminal Chamber, at the end of 2018, annulled the sentence. And he ordered a new trial. It is another judge who acquitted her. Evelyn came to house arrest, which she had access to in February.