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 ...

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 ...

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Sadly, Amnesty International was not always an enemy of Israel. The organization’s founder, Peter Benenson, was a strong supporter of the Jewish State.