Isaura Borges Coelho | |
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| Born | Isaura Assunção da Silva 20 June 1926 |
| Died | 11 June 2019 (aged 92) Parede, Portugal |
| Nationality | Portuguese |
| Other names | Isaura Assunção da Silva Borges Coelho |
| Occupation | Nurse |
| Known for | Spending four years as a political prisoner for organising nurses to object to rules barring married women from nursing |
Isaura Borges Coelho (1926 - 2019), was a Portuguese nurse and activist. She is known for her efforts in favour of nurses' rights, for which she was imprisoned and tortured by the Portuguese dictatorship's political police.[1]
- ^ "Morreu Isaura Borges Coelho, lutadora antifascista". CGTP. Retrieved 21 July 2020.