A woman in SLOT El Salvador who was sentenced to 30 years in prison after being accused of terminating her pregnancy and violating the country's strict abortion laws has been freed.
Sara Rogel was arrested nine years ago at the age of 20 after being taken to hospital with bleeding which she blamed on a fall at home.
She was prosecuted and convicted of aggravated homicide.
In January her sentence was commuted to 10 years. She was released on parole.
El Salvador, a socially conservative and mainly Catholic country, has one of the world's strictest bans on abortion, with no exception for rape or when the mother's life is at risk.
Dozens of women have been imprisoned for the deaths of their foetuses in cases where they said they had suffered miscarriages or stillbirths.
Dressed in white, Ms Rogel left the women's prison near Zacatecoluca, 56km (35 miles) south-east of capital San Salvador, on Monday. She was joined by members of her family and lawyer Karla Vaquerano.
"She was deprived of freedom for almost nine years, in a sentence we believed was unfairly given," Ms Vaquerano said, according to AFP news agency.
Ms Rogel, a student who was eight months pregnant, was found lying unconscious after she slipped and fell while washing clothes, according to her family.
She was taken to hospital, where she was detained on suspicion of having had an abortion. Human rights groups say she suffered a miscarriage and should never have been jailed.
"While in mourning for the heartbreaking loss of her pregnancy, Sara should have been with her family. Instead she was unjustly imprisoned for nine years," feminist activist Morena Herrera was quoted by Reuters news agency as saying.