Amnesty at 50
From 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.