Amnesty International UK
Our Urgent Action network protects people from torture, helps free men and women who are wrongly - and sometimes secretly - detained, and secures access to medical treatment or legal counsel for prisoners. It even saves lives.
Our Urgent Action network protects people from torture, helps free men and women who are wrongly - and sometimes secretly - detained, and secures access to medical treatment or legal counsel for prisoners. It even saves lives.
How our Urgent Action Network started
In February 1973, labour rights activist Professor Luis Basilio Rossi was at home with his wife Maria Jose, his daughter and a friend. Without warning, military police wielding machine guns suddenly burst through the door. They seized Rossi and his friend and cut the telephone cables so that Maria Jose was unable to get help.
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