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Martina provides strategic support to the Secret Prisons Team, with a focus on Reprieve\u2019s \u201cLife after Guantanamo\u201d project (LAG).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She studied Arabic and Persian in the Middle East and France. She holds MA degrees in Political Sciences and International Development from the University of Vienna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prior to her work on the LAG project for Reprieve, Martina managed the largest refugee shelter in Vienna during the 2015\/16 refugee crisis. She spent a decade in the Middle East: first as a student and freelance journalist during the Arab Spring, then as an ICRC delegate. She is fluent in Arabic, English, German, Spanish, French and speaks some Farsi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":11688,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-11679","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nMartina Burtscher - Reprieve US<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/reprieve.org\/uk\/person\/martina-burtscher-on-leave\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Martina Burtscher - Reprieve US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Martina provides strategic support to the Secret Prisons Team, with a focus on Reprieve\u2019s \u201cLife after Guantanamo\u201d project (LAG). 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