May 30, 2011
From BBC World Service, we hear the story of Maria Gillespie, whose torture and imprisonment in Uruguay were ended after an Amnesty letter-writing campaign resulted in tens of thousands of letters sent to the prison.
"I don't think that if I say 'thank you' it will be enough," Mrs Gillespie says of the Amnesty activists around the world who campaigned on her behalf."I think that I do owe them my life."Amnesty was founded 12 years before she was jailed.Read more here or download the mp3 here.