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Learn about Teodora del Carmen Vásquez, recipient of the 2018 Per Anger prize to human rights defenders.

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Teodora del Carmen Vásquez. Photo: Amnesty International.

“If those in charge thought they could silence me when they threw me in prison, they were mistaken. That’s where I found the drive to go on fighting, to come out and tell the world about the injustices that exist and the injustice that I suffered. I cannot stay silent; there are others still in prison who are just as innocent as I am. The state continues to trample these people, but the struggle will change all that.”

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