8/18/2015I was a schoolboy in England when I saw the article in the (Sunday) Observer by Peter Benenson in 1961 that led to the founding of Amnesty. Two years later I joined the new Amnesty student group at Oxford University and by the end of the decade, I had started a school group at the high school where I started my teaching career.
In those days, at the height of the Cold War, each group adopted three prisoners: one from the Western bloc, one from the soviet bloc and one from a non-aligned country. Examples might include a prisoner of conscience in South Vietnam, in Poland and in Indonesia."
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