Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "Therezinha de Jesus Zerbini ORB (also Therezinha de Godoy Zerbine; 12 December 1928 – 14 March 2015) was a Brazilian attorney, feminist leader, and founder of the Women's Movement for Amnesty in Brazil. She was a personality that marked the contemporary Brazilian history, reporting that civilians and politicians alike who opposed the Brazilian dictatorship had been imprisoned, tortured, and persecuted, a statement which was systematically denied by the military authorities.Zerbine was a political prisoner who occupied the same cell as president Dilma Rousseff in the Tiradentes State Prison. The amnesty movement was greatly enhanced when the Brazilian Committee for Amnesty (CBA) in Rio de Janeiro was launched, formed by lawyers of political prisoners demanding a broad, general and unrestricted amnesty, promoted by the Order of Attorneys of Brazil, in February 1978. The following month, she risked her life in an attempt to deliver a letter in the hands of President Jimmy Carter, making the then First Lady Rosalynn Carter, responsible for one of the two revolutionary moments of the military period.In 1979, she stood by Leonel Brizola, member of the Brazilian Labor Party (PTB) in São Paulo and founder of the Democratic Labor Party (PDT), when the acronym of the party was lost for Ivete Vargas. And despite her clear position against the military dictatorship, she also signed the "Manifesto for the Defense of Democracy", coordinated by national personalities, intellectuals and politicians in reaction to the political practices of the Lula government, thus supporting the democrat Jose Serra."@en }
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- Therezinha_Zerbini abstract "Therezinha de Jesus Zerbini ORB (also Therezinha de Godoy Zerbine; 12 December 1928 – 14 March 2015) was a Brazilian attorney, feminist leader, and founder of the Women's Movement for Amnesty in Brazil. She was a personality that marked the contemporary Brazilian history, reporting that civilians and politicians alike who opposed the Brazilian dictatorship had been imprisoned, tortured, and persecuted, a statement which was systematically denied by the military authorities.Zerbine was a political prisoner who occupied the same cell as president Dilma Rousseff in the Tiradentes State Prison. The amnesty movement was greatly enhanced when the Brazilian Committee for Amnesty (CBA) in Rio de Janeiro was launched, formed by lawyers of political prisoners demanding a broad, general and unrestricted amnesty, promoted by the Order of Attorneys of Brazil, in February 1978. The following month, she risked her life in an attempt to deliver a letter in the hands of President Jimmy Carter, making the then First Lady Rosalynn Carter, responsible for one of the two revolutionary moments of the military period.In 1979, she stood by Leonel Brizola, member of the Brazilian Labor Party (PTB) in São Paulo and founder of the Democratic Labor Party (PDT), when the acronym of the party was lost for Ivete Vargas. And despite her clear position against the military dictatorship, she also signed the "Manifesto for the Defense of Democracy", coordinated by national personalities, intellectuals and politicians in reaction to the political practices of the Lula government, thus supporting the democrat Jose Serra.".