On June 1, 2015 supporters held demonstrations at Mexican consulates in cities across the United States in an effort to raise awareness of Nestora Salgado’s imprisonment. Photos and details about the events in San Diego, Seattle, San Francisco, New York City, and Chicago follow.
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Clayton Conn of TeleSUR has shared this photo from today’s press conference in Mexico City.
Families and supporters of polit. prisoner #NestoraSalgado demand justice and not amnesty. #NestoraLibre pic.twitter.com/auNN58jG36
— Clayton Conn (@ClaytonCteleSUR) June 1, 2015
FSRN has released a stirring audio story detailing Nestora Salgado’s struggle and her recent decision to go on hunger strike. You can listen to the story and read their coverage of Nestora by clicking here.
In a recent article covering U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s visit to Boeing’s plant in Renton, WA – where Nestora Salgado lived for years – Seattle Globalist described the supporters of Nestora who showed up not only to protest the TPP trade deal, but also to raise awareness of the political prisoner’s troubles. The Globalist’s coverage follows:
…Also outside the Boeing plant were supporters of Nestora Salgado, the Renton woman who has been jailed in Mexico after running a community police force. Her husband, Jose Luis Avila, and her daughter, Grisel Rodriguez, were among the picketers vying for Kerry’s attention.
Avila said that he would like the Secretary of State to take a strong stance urging Mexico to free Salgado, who faces an uncertain wait for trial. Human rights groups and politicians in Washington and Mexico have already backed Salgado’s case.
“We have been knocking on his door for months,” Avila said. “Hopefully he can see that we’re here, and we’re not going away.”
Supporters of Nestora Salgado, a Renton woman imprisoned in Mexico, hope to get Secretary of State John Kerry’s attention. (Photo by Venice Buhain.)
For the full story, click here.
The Seattle University School of Law, where supporter of Nestora’s cause Professor Thomas Antkowiak teaches, has issued a news story providing some details into Nestora’s decision to go on hunger strike as well as the international efforts to pressure the Mexican government to release her.
“Integrantes de la Policía Comunitaria y familiares de Nestora Salgado en conferencia de prensa informaron que el martes pasado la comandante de esa corporación popular comenzó una huelga de hambre para protestar por los malos tratos y la discriminación que ha sufrido en el penal de máxima seguridad El Rincón, ubicado en Tepic, Nayarit.
‘Lo único que Nestora Salgado pedía era que las autoridades le mejoraran su alimentación dentro del penal debido a sus problemas gastrointestinales, cosa que no fue bien vista por los custodios que se encargaban de vigilarla. Por ello, ese mismo momento decidió realizar una huelga de hambre’, indicó Cleotilde Salgado, hermana de la comandante. “
“Salgado has been refused medical attention and due legal process for over two years, and ‘cannot endure anymore,’ she says.”
The Seattle University School of Law reported on March 16 that “[s]even United Nations human rights experts have appealed to the Government of Mexico to protect Nestora Salgado-García, the Renton woman who has been imprisoned in Mexico and is represented by the law school’s International Human Rights Clinic.”
To read the full story, click HERE.
In continuing with the recent (and very welcome) string of coverage on Nestora Salgado, the LA Times has released a story discussing the specific roadblocks – namely victims-rights advocate Isabel Miranda de Wallace – to Nestora’s release. De Wallace claims that Nestora Salgado kidnapped and ransomed innocent “victims,” but we stand firmly with Nestora’s husband Jose Luis Avila, who claims, “there are no ‘victims'” in this case, only “people who had broken laws and were under arrest.”
Click here to read the full story.
Watch (and share!) AJ+’s coverage of Nestora Salgado and her family’s attempts to secure her release from federal prison. The video focuses on Nestora’s husband José Rodriguez as he petitions the US government to take action in this tragic situation.
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