Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Timerman, Jacobo

Titel

Against silence: Our main problem in fighting for human rights is the ideology of silence.

Ist Teil von

• Index on censorship, 1982-02, Vol.11 (1), p.3-5

Ort / Verlag

SAGE Publications

Erscheinungsjahr

1982

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Jacobo Timerman was until recently one of Argentina's most distinguished newspaper editors. Born in Russia in 1923, he emigrated as a child with his family to Argentina, where he was later found the Buenos Aires daily La Opinion. He became a fierce opponent of the human rights abuses under the military regime which took power in 1976. In April 1977 Timerman was abducted and held prisoner for 30 months by agents of the Argentinian army. He was not found guilty of any of the accusations laid against him. The torture and savage anti-Semitism he was subjected to are described in his recent book, Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number. Exiled from Argentina in September 1979 following his release, he has spoken out on behalf of those who have been silenced or who continue to suffer from human rights violations in Argentina. Jacobo Timerman now lives in Israel; in November 1981 he was the guest of honour at the annual lunch of the Writers & Scholars Educational Trust in London, on which occasion he delivered the following address.