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GA-01522 1973-10-11 The Guardian rel B licensed

Ten torture cases to be used by Amnesty (The Guardian, 11 Oktober 1973)

Ten torture cases to be used by Amnesty (The Guardian, 11 October 1973)

The Guardian, 11 Oct 1973, p.8, Peter Cole: Amnesty International launches Prisoner of Conscience Week with ten emblematic torture cases. One is an Indonesian woman, Mrs Sri Ambar[...] (surname cut off in OCR), head of the women's department of the SOBSI trade union federation, who after arrest in 1966 was stripped nak

GA-03590 1973-10-12 Thurgauer Zeitung rel B

Thurgauer Zeitung (12 Oct 1973): Zeit der Folterungen, eine düstere Seite der Gegenwart (Sri Ambar)

Swiss press, 12 Oct 1973: Amnesty torture campaign, Sri Ambar hung by her wrists

Swiss Thurgauer Zeitung, 12 October 1973, a dpa wire report on Amnesty International's 'Week of the Political Prisoner' campaign against torture, naming ten torture victims. The Indonesian Sri Ambar (Sri Ambar Rukmiati per the sweep log) is said to have been beaten stripped and hung naked by her wrists a whole night. H

GA-03591 1973-10-12 Walliser Bote rel B

Walliser Bote, 12 October 1973: Ostpolitische Zusammenhänge (Amnesty torture report, Sri Ambar)

Swiss press, 12 Oct 1973: Amnesty torture campaign, Sri Ambar hung by her wrists

Swiss newspaper page (Walliser Bote, 12 Oct 1973) of agency news, mostly German Ostpolitik and Swiss matters. A short item on Amnesty International's anti-torture campaign says that the Indonesian woman Sri Ambar was beaten naked and hung by her wrists for a whole night; the catalogue identifies her as Sri Ambar Rukmia

GA-03464 1976-10 New Internationalist, Oct 1976, pp. 16-17 rel B licensed

New Internationalist, October 1976, pp. 16-17: 'Journalists in Jail' (Indonesia box names Miss Sudjinah, Lies Sukatno)

New Internationalist, Oct 1976: 'Journalists in Jail' (Indonesia entries incl. Sudjinah, Lies Sukatno)

Two-page Amnesty-based list of journalists detained or missing as of 23 April 1976, in New Internationalist (October 1976). Its Indonesia entries include 'Mrs Rusijati '65', 'Miss Sudjinah '66' and 'Lies Sukatno '66', giving only arrest years; no Gerwani link is stated. OCR is rough and the layout mixes countries.

GA-00267 1978-01-19 Papua New Guinea Post-Courier rel B

After 12 Years Freedom (Post-Courier, 19 Jan 1978)

After 12 Years Freedom (Post-Courier, 19 January 1978)

Papua New Guinea Post-Courier, 19 January 1978, p. 5, feature by George Oliver on the release of 10,000 political prisoners held since the 1965 coup, with PKI members forced to swear loyalty. It describes the Category A, B, C system, the 1965-66 massacres (estimates up to half a million killed), Amnesty International's

GA-00268 1978-01-19 Papua New Guinea Post-Courier rel B

After 12 Years Freedom (Post-Courier, 19 Jan 1978)

After 12 Years Freedom (Post-Courier, 19 January 1978), clean OCR

Papua New Guinea Post-Courier, 19 January 1978, p. 5, clean OCR of George Oliver's feature on the release of 10,000 political prisoners held since the 1965 coup (same article as GA-00267). It covers the official and alternative accounts of 30 September, killings of perhaps half a million, half to three-quarters of a mi

GA-01533 1979-10-14 The Observer rel B licensed

'Children are tortured' (The Observer, 14 Oktober 1979)

'Children are tortured' (The Observer, 14 October 1979)

The Observer, 14 Oct 1979, p.2, Ian Mather, 'Children are tortured': on an Amnesty International report on torture of children in many countries. For Indonesia it reports that the daughter of Sri Ambar, a woman trade unionist, was tortured in her mother's presence and disappeared, that many children arrested in 1965 re