Peter Benenson, the British lawyer who founded the human rights organization Amnesty International with his stated goal “to condemn persecution regardless of where it occurs or what are the ...

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 ...

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. Benenson, who was 83, started the group in 1961, calling for the release of prisoners of conscience.

The human rights organisation Amnesty International is celebrating its 50th birthday. The group was founded by lawyer Peter Benenson who was angered when he read of two Portuguese students ...

When Peter Benenson started Amnesty International, it was “to rekindle a fire in the minds of men.” The British lawyer’s Appeal for Amnesty, issued in May 1961, looked for a “common bond ...

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 – Peter Benenson, the founder of Amnesty International (search), has died, the human rights organization said Saturday. He was 83. The cause of his death on Friday night at John Radcliffe ...

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 ...

HUMAN rights campaigners have paid tribute to the contribution of Peter Benenson, founder of the worldwide human rights organisation Amnesty International, who died on Friday night. The 83-year ...