El Salvador women jailed for 30 years under anti-abortion laws are released

Women demand the government free women prisoners who are serving 30-year prison sentences for having an abortion (Salvador Melendez/AP)

Three El Salvador women who were jailed for 30 years under the nation’s strict anti-abortion laws after suffering obstetric emergencies have been released, according to campaigners.

Morena Herrera, of the Citizen’s Group for the Depenalisation of Abortion, said that the group was told one woman would be set free under a presidential order but when they went to the prison to greet her, three were released.