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Maria Gillespie

Amnesty at 50

2011-05-30

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