Mexico (HRNW) – Imprisoned for killing the man she says raped her, Roxana Ruiz is fighting to prove her innocence in a case taken up by activists campaigning for the right to self-defense.
“My only crime was to defend myself against the man who raped me,” Ruiz, 21, wrote from the prison where she has been held since May in a suburb next to Mexico City.
Rights groups will use Thursday’s International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women to argue that legitimate self-defense is not a crime in a country facing a femicide crisis.
In a letter published by activists, Ruiz said that her attacker was a man who insisted on accompanying her home after she went for a beer with a friend.
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