The Women's Liberation Movement came to Portugal via the "trial of the three Marys"—Maria Teresa Horta, Maria Isabel Barreno and Maria Velho da Costa.[76] In 1972, Horta, Barreno and Velho da Costa published Novas Cartas Portuguesas (New Portuguese Letters),[77] a critique of the repression imposed by the Portuguese state since the advent of the New State, specifically upon women[78] under the arbitrary and patriarchal governing systems.[79] The authors were arrested shortly after the book's printing and charged with violating public moral codes and publishing censorship laws.