Peter Benenson, who died on Friday aged 83, was the founder of Amnesty International, the organization set up to put pressure on governments to release people imprisoned for voicing their political or ...

LONDON (AP) -- Peter Benenson, who founded Amnesty International more than four decades ago, has died. He was 83. Benenson, who was educated in some of Britain's top schools, began his own human ...

Peter Benenson, an English barrister whose outrage over the imprisonment of two students prompted him to found the human rights organization Amnesty International 43 years ago, died of pneumonia Feb.

LONDON — Abortion has driven a wedge between the Catholic Church and an organization that began as an ally. Amnesty International (AI) was founded in 1961 by Peter Benenson, a British convert to ...

Amnesty International has remained defiant about its new pro-abortion stance despite receiving international criticism for their decision to abandon their long standing neutrality regarding abortion ...

SIR: When Amnesty International was established in July 1961 by Peter Benenson in the United Kingdom, he claimed to have been motivated by the injustice meted out to two Portuguese students. According ...

Pink Floyd star Roger Waters, Peter Gabriel and Hole's Patty Schemel have added their voices to the chorus of support for the jailed members of Russian punk group Pussy Riot. Feminist rockers Nadezhda ...

Peter Benenson, the British lawyer whose outrage at the jailing of two Portuguese students in 1960 spawned the Nobel Prize-winning human rights group Amnesty International, has died at the age of 83.

Peter Benenson, the founder of the human rights organization Amnesty International, has died, reportedly of pneumonia. Benenson, who was 83, started the group in 1961, calling for the release of ...

In November 1960, British barrister Peter Benenson traveled to work on London’s Underground as usual, wearing his customary bowler hat, with a newspaper tucked under his arm. It contained a story that ...