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GA-01176 1951-07-02 Java-Bode rel A

Zelfmoord? (Suicide?)

Suicide?

Java-Bode, 2 Jul 1951, p. 3: Mrs Mudigdo questions the government on a Sin Po report that a detained police mantri in Banyuwangi died, allegedly a suicide, after violent treatment in custody; he was accused of embezzling Rp 47,000.

GA-00296 1971-01-02 The Canberra Times rel A

Indonesian girl's ordeal: Victim of 'classic conspiracy case' (Canberra Times, 2 Januari 1971)

Indonesian Girl's Ordeal: Victim of 'Classic Conspiracy Case' (Canberra Times, 2 January 1971)

Canberra Times, 2 Jan 1971, p. 8 (Hugh Mabbett): reports the Sum Kuning case in Yogyakarta, where a 17-year-old egg seller was raped, then tortured by police and charged with a false report. Police tried to tar her with an accusation that in 1965, aged about 12, she was a Gerwani member; the court exposed the fabricati

GA-00297 1971-01-02 The Canberra Times rel A

Indonesian girl's ordeal: Victim of 'classic conspiracy case' (Canberra Times, 2 Januari 1971)

Indonesian Girl's Ordeal: Victim of 'Classic Conspiracy Case' (Canberra Times, 2 January 1971), duplicate

Canberra Times, 2 Jan 1971, p. 8 (Hugh Mabbett): reports the Sum Kuning case in Yogyakarta, where a 17-year-old egg seller was raped, then tortured by police and charged with a false report. Police tried to tar her with an accusation that in 1965, aged about 12, she was a Gerwani member; the court exposed the fabricati

GA-03342 1973-05-09 Berita Harian rel A

Wanita pertama dibicarakan bersabit rampasan kuasa 1965 ('Gestapo' woman to be tried)

First woman to be tried over the 1965 coup: 'Gestapo' woman (Berita Harian, 1973)

Berita Harian, 9 May 1973, p. 3, Reuters: a court spokesman says Mrs Sumali, a Gerwani leader, will be the first woman tried over the 1965 coup, charged with torturing an army general with a razor blade; she was arrested with other Gerwani members at Lubang Buaya on 1 October 1965 after six generals' bodies were found.

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-03462 1976-01 [MORE] (Rosebud Associates, New York), vol. 6 no. 1 rel A

[MORE] Vol. 6 No. 1, January 1976: Writers in Prison

[MORE] Jan 1976: Writers in Prison (Barbara Sproul), with entry on Sudjinah

Issue of the New York media magazine [MORE] (January 1976) with Barbara Sproul's Amnesty-linked article on writers jailed by repressive regimes. Its Indonesia list describes Sudjinah as a writer who contributed short stories to Harian Rakjat and worked on the editorial staff of Api Kartini, journal of Gerwani; arrested

GA-03463 1976-01 [MORE] (Rosebud Associates, New York), vol. 6 no. 1 rel A

[MORE] Vol. 6 No. 1, January 1976: Writers in Prison

[MORE] Jan 1976: Writers in Prison (Barbara Sproul), with entry on Sudjinah

Issue of the New York media magazine [MORE] (January 1976) with Barbara Sproul's Amnesty-linked article on writers jailed by repressive regimes. Its Indonesia list describes Sudjinah as a writer who contributed short stories to Harian Rakjat and worked on the editorial staff of Api Kartini, journal of Gerwani; arrested

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