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| | AI's first 40 years - 1961-1969 - Amnesty International (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | In July, the first international meeting with delegates from Belgium, UK, France, Germany, Ireland, Switzerland and the United States decides to establish "a permanent international movement in defence of freedom of opinion and religion." |
 | | The first AI groups are founded in the UK, West Germany, Holland, France, Italy and Switzerland. |
 | | AI takes its first mission to Ghana in January, followed by Czechoslovakia in February (on behalf of a prisoner of conscience, Archbishop Josef Beran), and then to Portugal and East Germany. |
| web.amnesty.org /pages/aboutai-timeline-1960s-eng (613 words) |
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