‘It’s a scare tactic’: Pamela Moses, the Black woman jailed over voting error, speaks out

Exclusive: Longtime activist who still faces the possibility of a retrial tells the Guardian she believes she's being persecuted' for being outspoken

Pamela Moses, the Memphis woman who was sentenced to six years in prison for trying to register to vote, says she is grateful to be released - but believes the case against her was a scare tactic" to discourage other people from casting a ballot.

Moses was released from prison on bond on 25 February after a judge unexpectedly granted her request for a new trial, citing evidence, obtained by the Guardian, that had not been disclosed to Moses' defense.