After spending seven years in a Mexican jail without being tried, an indigenous lady has returned to Guatemala

“Her crime was her inability to communicate in Spanish. “Who’s going to foot the bill for that scar?” Netza Sandoval’s uncle stated.

an indigenous lady has returned to Guatemala

After spending more than seven years in prison without a trial; an Indigenous migrant accused of kidnapping and imprisoned in a northern Mexico border city; she was released on Sunday and returned to her country of Guatemala.

On Saturday, a Mexican judge ordered Juana Alonzo Santizo, 35, to be released immediately.

According to Netza Sandoval, the chief of Mexico’s federal public defenders office; the court found that there was no consistent evidence against her.

Sandoval, whose agency took up Alonzo’s defence in 2021, claims she was tortured and made to sign a confession she didn’t comprehend because she couldn’t communicate in Spanish.