Sr Dianna Ortiz OSU, undated photo courtesy of the Ursuline Sisters of St Joseph
Sister Dianna Ortiz, a prominent human rights campaigner who took part in a number of significant protests that helped to expose US documents revealing American involvement in human-rights abuses in Guatemala, has died of cancer at the age of 62.
Members of the Guatemalan military abducted, raped and tortured Sr Ortiz in 1989. Initially denied by US officials and the Guatemalan president, the story of her captivity hit headlines across the world when she claimed an American had been involved in her ordeal.
