“Courage to the test in the face of horror and abuse”: death of human rights lawyer Fabiola Letelier

At the age of 92, the human rights lawyer, Fabiola Letelier del Solar, died as a result of a cerebrovascular disease, according to her family.
Born in Temuco, Fabiola Letelier studied law at the University of Chile and was part of the search for reparation and justice for hundreds of victims of human rights violations in the dictatorship. For that work, he received the National Human Rights Award in 2018.
Together with another group of people, she co-founded the Corporation for the Promotion and Defense of the Rights of the People (CODEPU), an organization that assists victims and families who suffered human rights violations, and was a plaintiff lawyer in the case of the crime of her brother Orlando Letelier, murdered by the dictatorship in Washington, in which she obtained with another figure from the world of human rights, the lawyer Juan Bustos, a sentence of seven years for the hierarchs of the DINA, Manuel Contreras and Pedro Espinoza.
Through a statement, her family highlighted her figure and said that “she will be remembered with love by her family, colleagues, comrades in struggle and by thousands of Chileans and people from other countries, who thank and celebrate her life of tireless search for justice and courageous struggle for the protection of the human rights of our peoples.”
“His sharp intelligence, his indomitable kind heart, his tenacity, his courage to the test in the face of horror and abuse, his plain and open treatment, will be remembered as a light of hope and as a stimulus to continue dreaming, working and fighting for a world in which the dignity of all, all, is a reality.” adds his family.
This Friday, November 19, a popular wake will be held in his homage at the Museum of Memory and the next day, a mass will be held in his commemoration on Saturday, November 20 in the Church of San Ignacio (Father Alonso de Ovalle 1494).

Original source in Spanish