El Salvador: Rape victim who suffered stillbirth faces murder retrial

C/U Sign: Courtroom N.3.1., Ciudad Delgado
C/U Evelyn Hernandez in courtroom
M/S Hernandez in courtroom
M/S Journalists
M/S Hernandez in courtroom
M/S Hernandez with legal team
SOT, Evelyn Hernandez, defendant (Spanish): "I just want to thank you for your support. You are always here giving me your support. Now I'm waiting for the ruling next Monday at 11. I remain as positive as ever. I know that I will be fine. Thank you for everything."
C/U People crying
C/U People crying
SOT, Morena Herrera (Spanish): "Evelyn has had, her rights have been completely violated. The right to security, the right to information and sex education at school, the right to treat her medical problems and her right to proper legal representation too. In her fight to reclaim her rights, it a struggle for all women."
M/S Hernandez leaving courthouse and crowd
M/S Hernandez entering car
C/U Prayers for Hernandez outside courthouse
M/S Prayers for Hernandez outside courthouse
M/S Supporters of Hernandez dance and hold signs outside courthouse
C/U Supporter of Hernandez dances and sings outside courthouse
SCRIPT
A rape victim who delivered a stillborn baby as a teenager faces decades in prison for aggravated homicide. Her retrial continued at a court in Ciudad Delgado on Friday.
Hernandez, now 21, was in her first year of university when she says she was raped. After suffering stillbirth, she was charged with deliberately killing her unborn baby.
Despite insisting that she did not know she was pregnant, she was sentenced to 30 years in prison.
She had already served 33 months in prison when she was freed this February on appeal. This time, reports say, prosecutors have asked for an even longer sentence of 40 years in prison.
The case has drawn attention to the El Salvador's rigid abortion law where a total ban on abortion was imposed in 1998, making it illegal for women even when the pregnancy poses a risk to the mother's life or in cases of rape and incest.