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Amnesty international | Amnesty International was launched in 1961 by Peter Benenson,
a British lawyer, after reading about two Portuguese students who
had been sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment for raising
their glasses in a toast to freedom.
The ancient Chinese proverb ‘It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness’ inspired Peter Benenson’s choice of a symbol for Amnesty International - the candle in barbed wire. |
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