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Antonio Fernandez Saenz
Antonio Fernandez Saenz (born 1947) is a Spain, Spanish-Brazilian lawyer and human rights defender. Early life When he was a small child, his family emigrated from Spain to Brazil to escape the dictatorship of Francisco Franco. Political involvement While a student, Saenz edited and contributed to several student newspapers. He was particularly active after 1964 when a Military dictatorship in Brazil, military dictatorship was established that lasted until 1986. His writing, exposing the Political repression and torture in Brazil, brought him to the attention of agents of the Brazilian political police of the time, the DOI-CODI, as well as the agents of the CISA (Brazilian Air Force Intelligence Agency). In order to avoid his arrest and torture (a common practice in Brazil at that time) Saenz was forced to stop writing while the dictatorship of General Artur da Costa e Silva lasted. Practice of law Shortly after his return from a trip to United States in 1972, he entered the Law ...
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