This publication reports on Amnesty International’s work from May 1980 to April 1981

The STM (Superior Military Tribunal) heard an appeal against the sentence imposed by the São Paulo military court last February 1981 on Luis Inacio DA SILVA (otherwise known as “Lula”) and ten other trade unionists.

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Statute updated subsequently.

On 25 February 1981 a São Paulo military court tried Luis Inacio da Silva (known as “Lula”) and 12 other members of the metal workers’ union on charges under the Law of National Security. The charges related to a six-week strike by metal workers in São Paulo in 1980. Amnesty International expressed...

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Amnesty International is seriously concerned about the safety of the 13 people named in this Action who are all schoolteachers in El Salvador and were reportedly captured by Salvadorian security forces on 17 June 1981.

The five persons named in this action were reportedly detained in El Salvador at the end of May by security forces. At present no further details are known. Orlando Juventino Genoves is President of the Salvadorian teachers’ union Asociación Nacional de Educadores Salvadoreños “21 de Junio” (ANDES...

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