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Murdered Salvadoran journalist's boyfriend given 50 years for femicide
Mario Huezo convicted of killing Karla Turcios in 2018
Sentence ‘sends a message’ about gender-based killing
Reuters
Fri 31 Jan 2020 15.03 ESTLast modified on Fri 31 Jan 2020 16.14 EST
The boyfriend of a murdered Salvadoran journalist has been found guilty of femicide and given the maximum 50-year prison sentence on Friday, a rare conviction in the deadly gender violence that often goes unpunished in the Central American nation.
Mario Huezo was convicted by a judge of killing Karla Turcios, with whom he lived and had a child with, after a nine-day trial in a court that hears gender violence cases in San Salvador.
The murder of Turcios in 2018 made headlines and prompted the government to declare a national emergency against femicide – the killing of a woman by a man because of her gender.
El Salvador, a country of 6 million people, has one of the world’s highest rates of femicide, according to the United Nations.
More:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/31/el-salvador-femicide-sentence-karla-turcios
