Woman Who Reported Corruption in Juarez Jail Seeks Asylum in United States El Jefazo - The Fulano Forum
go to original February 16, 2016

Mariana Ibarra Morán, now a refugee in Texas (El Mañana)

A Mexican woman who said she was forced to remain locked up against her will in a Ciudad Juarez prison in a case of corruption there has applied for asylum in the United States, her attorney said.

Mariana Ibarra Moran, 21, decided to seek refuge in the U.S. because Mexican authorities would not guarantee her safety after she revealed the corruption taking place in the Juarez jail, said her attorney in El Paso, Carlos Spector.

That prison, the Social Rehabilitation Center, or Cereso, in Ciudad Juarez, will be visited Wednesday by Pope Francis.

Ibarra said she was forced to stay in the jail against her will following a conjugal visit on Feb. 6 because her former partner, Jesus Eduardo Soto Rodriguez, alias “El Lalo,” convicted of kidnapping, bribed the guards to keep her there.

“They didn’t let her go because he (Jesus Eduardo Soto Rodriguez) didn’t want them to. It was then that her family went to the press and demanded her release,” Spector told EFE. “After that, they filed a complaint about gender violence, and it was then that the nightmare began.”

The attorney said that this is the strongest case for political asylum he has seen in 25 years, since the woman is “the victim of domestic violence in the prison, in collusion with Cereso officials.”

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