María Ester Gatti

María Ester Gatti de Islas ( born January 13, 1918 in Montevideo, † December 5, 2010 ibid ) was an Uruguayan human rights activist.

Gatti, born in 1918 in the " calle Guana ", married in 1948, who died on July 24, 1980 Ramón Agustín González Islas. She lived most of her life in montevideanischen quarter Colón. She was one of the founders in 1985 of the Association of Relatives of disappeared political prisoners from Uruguay ( " Madres y familiares de Uruguayans Detenidos Desaparecidos "). The initiative for the establishment of this organization was created out of your own family history. Their only daughter Maria Emilia Islas de Zaffaroni (18 April 1953 -? ) Was arrested along with her husband Jorge Zaffaroni Castilla and daughter Mariana on September 27, 1976 during the period of dictatorship by the Uruguayan and Argentine military in Argentina and abducted. Only their granddaughter was born on March 22, 1975 Mariana Zaffaroni, at the time of abduction 18 months old, appeared in 1992 as an adopted child of a Uruguayan intelligence relatives again. This is based on the French- Uruguayan documentary "Por esos ojos " basis. They also fought against the still connected to the Ley de caducidad impunity of many committed crimes during the dictatorship phase and argued for the abolition of this law. Gatti died aged 92 in at the San José in the " calle Millán ".

Awards

• Honorary citizen ( " Ciudadana Ilustre " ) of Montevideo ( 2008)