‘Prisoners Of Year’
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter —Copyright? STOCKHOLM, Aug. 26.
A Brazilian Communist, a Polish girl and a Greek housewife have been voted “prisoners of the year” by delegates to the annual meeting of Amnesty International. Mr Gregorio Bezerra was said to have been severely tortured and imprisoned for nine years after taking part in a Communist revolt in Brazil in 1946, and was sentenced last year to 19 years imprisonment
Miss Nina Karsow, aged 27, was sentenced to three years imprisonment in Poland last October on charges which included arranging the publication abroad of information about Polish political trials. The third “prisoner of the year,” Mrs Eleni Voulgari, was said to have been given a 10-year sentence by the Greek courts in 1966 because one of her family had sheltered her brother-in-law, who was accused of political offences, in 1954. « Amnesty International is an organisation dedicated to securing the release of political prisoners, and the meeting was attended by more than 200 delegates from 12 countries.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31768, 27 August 1968, Page 17
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