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Judi Lynn

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Tue Sep 10, 2019, 12:39 AM Sep 2019

Salvadoran activists hurl confetti, paint to protest new abortion trial

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019 / 9:57 PM / UPDATED 2 HOURS AGO

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SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - Activists in El Salvador threw eggs filled with confetti and sprayed red paint outside the attorney general’s office on Monday to a protest a decision to seek a third trial for a woman accused of killing her stillborn son.

Abortion is banned in the socially-conservative Central American country, where women have been prosecuted for stillbirths after home deliveries and abortions induced because of medical emergencies.

A small group of masked women disguised as clowns ran up to the main entrance of the office and defaced it with red paint. They quickly retreated as dozens of other protesters chanted their support nearby.

The activists were protesting a decision to seek a third trial of Evelyn Hernandez, who was exonerated at an August retrial after she was convicted of homicide and sentenced to 30 years in prison.

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https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-elsalvador-abortion-protests/salvadoran-activists-hurl-confetti-paint-to-protest-new-abortion-trial-idUKKCN1VV065?rpc=401&

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