Aurora Rodrigues

Aurora Rosa Salvador Rodrigues, born January 20, 1952, is a Portuguese retired magistrate of the Public Prosecution Service. She studied law at the University of Lisbon, and after attending a student demonstration was arrested by the PIDE secret police, who deprived her of sleep for over two weeks to induce hallucinations among other forms of torture; she was never formally charged and was released after three months. She graduated and became a magistrate and president of the Evorian section of the Sindicato dos Magistrados, the Prosecutors' Union. After retiring she wrote an account of her experiences under the Estado Novo regime.