Political Prisoners & portuguese dictatorship

release of Political Prisoners from Peniche, April 27, 1974
photo by Ezequiel Santos 


Our political prisoners were released April 26 (Caxias)
& April 27 (Peniche), 1974.


Libertação dos Presos Políticos
Reportagem sobre a libertação dos presos políticos da prisão de Caxias
(release of political prisoners from Forte de Caxias prison - news report)
© RTP Arquivos
 
Repressive Dynamics and Political Subjectivities: the Case of Peniche Prison
© Scielo Portugal

Notorious Portuguese political prison becomes museum of resistance
© The Guardian

Tarrafal camp - Wikipedia

First period » October 18, 1936 - January 26, 1954
Tarrafal - Campo da Morte Lenta "Camp of the Slow Death"
 
Second period » June 1961 - May 1, 1974
reopen & named  
Campo de Trabalho de Chão Bom "Forced Labor Camp 
of Chão Bom"
for Militants that were fighting portuguese colonialism. 
 
Museu do Aljube – Resistência e Liberdade
 
A Glimpse of Hell: Lisbon's Museu do Ajube and the Dictatorship
© Atlas Lisboa