241:. In 1973, Sancho was first arrested by state forces; then incarcerated again in 1976 as a political prisoner in Bicutan, Taguig. She was later released in 1978 after two and a half years due to humanitarian grounds after conceiving her firstborn child, Antonio Karlo. She then co-founded Gabriela Women's Party in 1984.
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