Guatemala City: A native migrant who was accused of kidnapping and lodged in a northern prison Mexico The border town returned to her homeland of Guatemala on Sunday as a free woman after spending more than seven years in prison without trial.
A Mexican court on Saturday ordered the immediate release of 35-year-old Juana Alonzo Santijo.
The court ruled that there was no coherent evidence against him, Netzac said. sandovalHead of the Office of the Federal Public Protector of Mexico.
Sandoval, whose office took over defending Alonzo in 2021, argues she was tortured and forced to sign a confession she did not understand because she could not speak Spanish .
Spell chuju He said the woman had left her village of San Mateo Ixtaton in 2014 to immigrate to the United States. He was detained by immigration officials when renosaMcAllen, a Mexican border town across Texas, and one of the main points of smuggling tamaulipas state.
Police then charged him with kidnapping and jailed him, Sandoval said. He said the allegations had not been translated into his chosen language until this year.
He was never convicted, never tried, and was placed in “pre-trial detention” at the time.
An advocacy campaign for her independence was supported by national and international groups and Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador, and the Tamaulipas Prosecutor’s Office dropped charges against her.
“This is a completely unusual case,” Sandoval said. All of her rights were violated because “she’s a woman, she’s an indigenous person, she’s an expatriate, she’s poor, and she doesn’t speak Spanish.”
An emotional Alonzo was welcomed by her family at the Guatemala City airport on Sunday, and fell into the arms of her father and her uncle. Her relatives helped her change from jeans to traditional regional clothing.
“It’s easy to go to prison, but it’s hard to get out of it,” Alonzo said in stopping the Spanish, which he learned while in prison.
“We are not stones, we are not plastic things.” He added.
Pedro AlonzoAn uncle, said she had fled hoping to help her family.
“Her crime was being unable to speak Spanish. Who’s going to pay for that mark?” They said.
According to data from Mexico’s federal government, 43% of the people held in the country’s prisons have neither been convicted nor sentenced.
A Mexican court on Saturday ordered the immediate release of 35-year-old Juana Alonzo Santijo.
The court ruled that there was no coherent evidence against him, Netzac said. sandovalHead of the Office of the Federal Public Protector of Mexico.
Sandoval, whose office took over defending Alonzo in 2021, argues she was tortured and forced to sign a confession she did not understand because she could not speak Spanish .
Spell chuju He said the woman had left her village of San Mateo Ixtaton in 2014 to immigrate to the United States. He was detained by immigration officials when renosaMcAllen, a Mexican border town across Texas, and one of the main points of smuggling tamaulipas state.
Police then charged him with kidnapping and jailed him, Sandoval said. He said the allegations had not been translated into his chosen language until this year.
He was never convicted, never tried, and was placed in “pre-trial detention” at the time.
An advocacy campaign for her independence was supported by national and international groups and Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador, and the Tamaulipas Prosecutor’s Office dropped charges against her.
“This is a completely unusual case,” Sandoval said. All of her rights were violated because “she’s a woman, she’s an indigenous person, she’s an expatriate, she’s poor, and she doesn’t speak Spanish.”
An emotional Alonzo was welcomed by her family at the Guatemala City airport on Sunday, and fell into the arms of her father and her uncle. Her relatives helped her change from jeans to traditional regional clothing.
“It’s easy to go to prison, but it’s hard to get out of it,” Alonzo said in stopping the Spanish, which he learned while in prison.
“We are not stones, we are not plastic things.” He added.
Pedro AlonzoAn uncle, said she had fled hoping to help her family.
“Her crime was being unable to speak Spanish. Who’s going to pay for that mark?” They said.
According to data from Mexico’s federal government, 43% of the people held in the country’s prisons have neither been convicted nor sentenced.