Iranian Women’s Conference to be Held in the Netherlands
May 28, 2011A ‘Halal’ Internet
May 30, 2011From BBC World Service, we hear the story of Maria Gillespie, whose torture and imprisonment in Uruguay were ended after an Amnesty letter-writing campaign resulted in tens of thousands of letters sent to the prison.
“I don’t think that if I say ‘thank you’ it will be enough,” Mrs Gillespie says of the Amnesty activists around the world who campaigned on her behalf.
“I think that I do owe them my life.”
Amnesty was founded 12 years before she was jailed.