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SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - A court in El Salvador has ordered the release of a young woman sentenced to 30 years in prison for homicide following the death of her unborn child in 2012, authorities said on Monday. Sara Rogel was arrested in October 2012 after going to a hospital with bleeding injuries caused by what she said was a fall while carrying out chores at home. Then a 22-year-old student, Rogel was prosecuted and sentenced for killing her unborn daughter. Salvadoran law applies one of the world s strictest bans on abortion with no exceptions made for rape, incest or when the mother s life is at risk. More than eight years after Rogel was incarcerated, a judge for the Cojutepeque prison in eastern El Salvador granted her early release after accepting an appeal for pardon from her lawyers, said Ulises Marinero, chief spokesman for the courts. Rogel will continue, however, to be held in custody because the prosecution still has five days to appeal the decision. We feel the ruling is ....
By Sofia Menchu GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) -Lawmakers on Monday ratified the appointment of a judge linked to a judicial corruption probe to sit on Guatemala s top court, a few days before a visit by U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, whose government has urged the country to fight graft. Nester Vasquez s ratification as one of five Constitutional Court justices comes after an autonomous anti-corruption prosecutor alleged in February that his prior appointment to a lower court was tainted by illicit influence-peddling. Vasquez has not replied to repeated requests for comment on allegations made by Guatemala s Special Prosecutor Against Impunity that his 2014 election to the Supreme Court of Justice was the result of illegal lobbying of officials and lawmakers. The approval of Vasquez s investiture by Congress grants him immunity from prosecution. He did not take part in the session and is due to be sworn in personally in the days to come. The court s justices must have substitutes. Vasqu ....
MANILA (Reuters) - A Philippine court on Tuesday dismissed a cyber libel case against award-winning journalist Maria Ressa, which was one of several lawsuits against her and news site Rappler, which have put President Rodrigo Duterte under tough scrutiny. A second libel case filed late last year by businessman Wilfredo Keng, who had accused Ressa of sharing screenshots of a 2002 news article linking him to crimes, was withdrawn by the complainant. Rappler chief Ressa has said the charges against her were ludicrous. She was convicted in June in an earlier cyber libel case filed by Keng over the same article that Rappler cited in its own story in 2012, a ruling that was widely seen as a blow to media freedom. Ressa faces up to six years in jail but has appealed the ruling. She and Rappler are dealing with several other cases, including alleged tax offences and violation of foreign ownership rules in media. I m glad to hear good news. I look forward to seeing the rest of the cases against ....
By Inti Landauro and Guillermo Martinez MADRID (Reuters) -Spain s High Court on Tuesday turned down a request for Western Sahara independence leader Brahim Ghali to be taken into custody, saying the plaintiffs in a war crimes case against him had failed to provide evidence he had committed any crime. The Polisario Front leader, who has been hospitalized in the Spanish city of Logrono for more than a month, appeared remotely before the court in Madrid. He and other Polisario Front leaders are accused by human rights groups and Western Sahara individuals of genocide, murder, terrorism, torture and disappearances, a court document said. He denies any wrongdoing. The prosecution report has not provided elements of evidence supporting the existence of reasons to believe he is responsible of any crime, a court document said. The development was a new twist in a dispute between Madrid and Rabat over Ghali. The Spanish government says he was allowed treatment in Spain as a humanitarian gesture ....
KYIV (Reuters) - One of Belarus s few independent news sites, TUT.BY, said on Monday its editor-in-chief Marina Zolotova had been charged in a tax evasion case that it said was fabricated as part of a crackdown on media. Zolotova could face 3-7 years in prison if found guilty after the closed-door hearing, TUT.BY said. The Belarusian authorities have not confirmed the charges and a spokesman for the state s Investigative Committee did not respond to a request for comment. The court in Minsk where the hearing took place could not be reached for comment. Zolotova has been accused of complicity in tax evasion on an especially large scale , her outlet said. The authorities have arrested 15 employees at TUT.BY as part of a crackdown following mass protests against veteran President Alexander Lukashenko that erupted last year after a disputed election. TUT.BY was one of the most widely read news sites in Belarus during the protests. Lukashenko s government has stripped many news organisation ....