Aurora Rosa Salvador Rodrigues (born 20 January 1952) is a Portuguese retired magistrate of the Public Prosecution Service.
Rodrigues became a MRPP party member after another law student, Ribeiro dos Santos, was shot and killed by the PIDE.
[7] Rodrigues was deprived of sleep for over two weeks, drowned repeatedly, kept in stress positions, beaten, and denied access to her reflection.
[4] They arrived at the party headquarters on 28 May 1975, and both were arrested by Comando Operacional do Continente (COPCON), the military organization led by Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho that controlled Portugal in the wake of the revolution.
[16] In 2024, the Portuguese Bar Association selected Rodrigues to receive the Elina Guimarães Award for defending women's rights.
[16] In the 2011 book Gente Comum – Uma História na PIDE, Rodrigues describes her experience as a political prisoner.
[6][4][10] Historian António Monteiro Cardoso [pt] and anthropologist Paula Godinho [gl] edited the book and provided notes for historical and social context.