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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 naked, beaten, hung by her wrists from a tree overnight and stabbed in the thigh and buttock, while her two daughters and mother were beaten before her. Gerwani is not named.
The Guardian, 11 Okt 1973, hlm. 8, Peter Cole: Amnesty International membuka Pekan Tahanan Nurani dengan sepuluh kasus penyiksaan yang menjadi simbol. Salah satunya perempuan Indonesia, Ny. Sri Ambar[...] (nama belakang terpotong OCR), kepala departemen perempuan federasi serikat buruh SOBSI, yang setelah ditangkap 1966 ditelanjangi, dipukuli, digantung pada pergelangan tangan di pohon semalaman dan ditikam di paha dan pantat, sementara dua putrinya dan ibunya dipukuli di hadapannya. Gerwani tidak disebut.
“Mrs Sri Ambar[...] 'was head of the women's department of the All-Indonesian Trade Union Federation. After she had been arrested in 1966 she was stripped naked, beaten, and hung by her wrists from a tree through one night.'”
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