Hector Timerman

Héctor Timerman "was 22 when his father, Jacobo Timerman, was arrested. Héctor worked to free him until advised to leave the country for his own safety. In 1989 he returned to Argentina, where he is now a political columnist, host of a national TV program and a director of APDH, a human rights organization." 

"Héctor Timerman is the Consul General of Argentina in New York.

"Ambassador Timerman was cofounder and board member of Human Rights Watch, and the son of Jacobo Timerman, an outspoken journalist, who was imprisoned, tortured and held under house arrest in Argentina for 30 months in the 1970s, an experience detailed in the 1981 book, Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number." 


 * Scholar/Advisor, International Freedom Center