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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452245803321

Autore

White Richard Alan <1944->

Titolo

Breaking silence [[electronic resource] ] : the case that changed the face of human rights / / Richard Alan White

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : Georgetown University Press, c2004

ISBN

1-58901-281-X

1-4356-3897-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 p.)

Collana

Advancing human rights series

Disciplina

323/.044/09892

Soggetti

Human rights - Paraguay

Political persecution - Paraguay

Torture - Paraguay

Electronic books.

Paraguay Politics and government 1954-1989

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Prologue; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; Epilogue; Glossary and Abbreviations; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Young seventeen-year-old Joelito Fil?rtiga was taken from his family home in Asunci?n, Paraguay, brutally tortured, and murdered by the Paraguayan police. Breaking Silence is the inside story of the quest for justice by his fatherùthe true target of the policeùParaguayan artist and philanthropist Dr. Joel Fil?rtiga. That cruel death, and the subsequent uncompromising struggle by Joelito's father and family, led to an unprecedented sea change in international law and human rights. The author, Richard Alan White, first became acquainted with the Fil?rtiga family in the mid-1970s while doing rese