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	Peter Benenson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Peter James Henry Solomon Benenson (July 31, 1921 – February 25, 2005) was a British lawyer and the founder of human rights group Amnesty International (AI).
		Born in London, his army officer father died while Benenson was still young, and he was tutored privately by W.
		In 1961 Benenson was shocked and angered by a newspaper report of two Portuguese students from Coimbra sentenced to seven years in prison for raising their glasses in a toast to freedom (this occurred during the autocratic regime of António de Oliveira Salazar).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peter_Benenson (415 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Peter Benenson
		Peter Benenson, who died on Friday aged 83, was the founder of Amnesty International, the organisation set up to bring pressure on governments to release people imprisoned for voicing their political or religious opinions - people for whom Benenson coined the term "prisoners of conscience".
		Peter Henry James Benenson was born on July 31 1921, a grandson of the Russian-Jewish banker Grigori Benenson.
		Peter Benenson is survived by his wife Susan, and by a son and three daughters.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/02/28/db2802.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/02/28/ixportal.html (746 words)

	[Deathwatch] Peter Benenson, "Amnesty International" founder, 83
		Peter Benenson, Founder of Amnesty Group, Dies at 83 By ROBERT D. McFADDEN Published: February 28, 2005 Peter Benenson, a British lawyer whose outrage over the imprisonment of two Portuguese students for drinking a toast to liberty spawned the human rights organization Amnesty International in 1961, died Friday in a hospital in Oxford, England.
		Benenson first envisioned as a one-year letter-writing campaign on behalf of "prisoners of conscience," who were being persecuted for their beliefs, eventually grew into the world's largest human rights organization, with 1.8 million members, chapters in 64 countries and a perennially powerful voice against torture, unjust imprisonment and the death penalty.
		Peter Benenson was born in London on July 31, 1921, the son of a British army colonel.
	slick.org /pipermail/deathwatch/2005-February/001037.html (806 words)

	Peter Benenson hero file (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Benenson's father, Harold Solomon, is a member of a London stockbroking family and a career soldier who had risen to the rank of brigadier-general in the First World War.
		Benenson is at first tutored privately by the poet W.H. Auden, then attends Eton College and Oxford University, where he studies for a degree in history at Balliol College.
		Benenson is appalled by what he witnesses at the trials of the trade unionists and draws up a list of complaints with which he confronts the trial judge.
	www.moreorless.au.com /heroes/benenson.html (3336 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Have Your Say \| Peter Benenson: Your tributes
		Thanks to Peter Benenson, many victims of human rights abuses all over the world see the light at the end of the tunnel, and he passed on that gift of objecting to the horrible treatment of human beings to everyone who is willing to look a little further.
		Peter Benenson was the leading light in this organisation, he was its watchtower and strength, sadly I feel many others do it as just an income and pay-packet, the emotion and feeling with the commitment is not there as it was with Peter.
		Peter Benenson will remain an inspiration to everyone in the human rights movement, and to everyone who believes that "it is better to light a candle than to complain about the darkness".
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/talking_point/4301027.stm (2525 words)

	Amnesty International USA: Peter Benenson remembered
		"Peter Benenson’s life was a courageous testament to his visionary commitment to fight injustice around the world," said Irene Khan, Secretary General of Amnesty International.
		In the first few years of Amnesty International's existence, Mr Benenson supplied much of the funding for the movement, went on research missions and was involved in all aspects of the organisation's affairs.
		Other activities that Mr Benenson was involved in during his lifetime included; adopting orphans from the Spanish Civil War, bringing Jews who had fled Hitler's Germany to Britain, observing trials as a member of the Society of Labour Lawyers, helping to set up the organisation "Justice" and establishing a society for people with coeliac disease.
	www.amnestyusa.org /about/peter_benenson.html (645 words)

	Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Obituaries / Peter Benenson, 83, founder of Amnesty International
		LONDON -- 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's life was a courageous testament to his visionary commitment to fight injustice around the world," Irene Khan, secretary-general of Amnesty International, said in a statement.
		Benenson began Amnesty as a one-year campaign for the release of six prisoners of conscience before it grew into a worldwide movement for human rights.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2005/02/27/peter_benenson_83_founder_of_amnesty_international (474 words)

	World Affairs Board - R.I.P. Peter Benenson
		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. 25 in London at John Radcliffe Hospital.
		Benenson's organization, which now counts 1.8 million members, won the 1977 Nobel Peace Prize for "defending human dignity against violence and subjugation," by focusing on human rights and cases of torture and unjust imprisonment around the world.
		Benenson, wearing his bowler hat and reading a newspaper on the London Underground in 1960, came across a small article about two Portuguese students at a Lisbon restaurant who toasted freedom, were arrested and sentenced to seven years in prison.
	www.worldaffairsboard.com /printthread.php?t=4826 (807 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Peter Benenson
		Benenson's recollection was that on a Tube journey in November 1960 he read a newspaper item about two Portuguese students who were dining privately in a Lisbon restaurant, and drank a toast to liberty.
		Benenson decided to organise a protest by those who were rarely given to expressing their indignation.
		Benenson had already begun work on a book, later published by Penguin, entitled Persecution 1961, which consisted of case studies of political prisoners from various regimes, concentrating on the consequences for the individuals concerned.
	www.guardian.co.uk /humanrights/story/0,7369,1426741,00.html (1484 words)

	wais:global issues: amnesty international peter benenson March 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Peter Benenson was born ten years to the day after the birth of the founding-president of WAIS.
		Peter Benenson was one of the few who never needed to doubt.
		Born on 31 July 1921, Peter Benenson is the grandson of the Russian-Jewish banker Grigori Benenson and son of the notable Flora Solomon who raised him alone after the death of her husband, British Army colonel John Solomon.
	www.stanford.edu /group/wais/ztopics/week030105/globalissues_050301_amnestyinternational.htm (357 words)

	CTV.ca \| Amnesty Int'l founder, Peter Benenson, dies at 83
		"Peter Benenson's life was a courageous testament to his visionary commitment to fight injustice around the world," Irene Khan, Secretary General of Amnesty International, said in a statement released Saturday.
		Benenson was inspired to launch his campaign after reading an article about the arrest of two students who drank a toast to liberty in Portugal and were imprisoned for seven years.
		Benenson was privately tutored by poet W.H. Auden, and went on to study at Eton and Oxford University.
	www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1109436397724_3?hub=CTVNewsAt11 (586 words)

	Death of founder of Amnesty International. - Indymedia Ireland
		Peter Benenson, the founder of Amnesty International, was 83.
		In comparison with the world into which he was born, Benenson left behind him one changed so fundamentally that it is hard to conceive of the scale of the transformation.
		However, the most extraordinary phenomenon - and the one on which Peter Benenson left his indelible mark - is the birth of what has come to be known globally as "civil society".
	www.indymedia.ie /newswire.php?story_id=68791&print_page=true (571 words)

	The Observer \| UK News \| The man who fought for the forgotten
		Benenson had intended his campaign to run for a year, but the response to his article was overwhelming.
		Peter Benenson's life was a courageous testament to his visionary commitment to fight injustice around the world.
		Benenson was born on 31 July 1921, the grandson of the Russian-Jewish banker Grigori Benenson.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /uk_news/story/0,6903,1426617,00.html (1187 words)

	Move Left Media - Progressive Person-of-the-Week: Amnesty International Founder Peter Benenson
		Benenson's sense of outrage after reading an article about the arrest and imprisonment of two students in a café in Lisbon, Portugal, who had drunk a toast to liberty.
		Benenson supplied much of the funding for the movement, went on research missions and was involved in all aspects of the organization's affairs.
		Benenson was involved in during his lifetime included; adopting orphans from the Spanish Civil War, bringing Jews who had fled Hitler's Germany to Britain, observing trials as a member of the Society of Labour Lawyers, helping to set up the organization "Justice" and establishing a society for people with coeliac disease.
	www.moveleft.com /moveleft_essay_2005_03_03_progressive_person_of_the_week_amnesty_international_founder_peter_benenson.asp (415 words)

	He lit the torch for human rights - The Wire - April 2005 - Amnesty International
		It was a chance reading of an article in the press that led British lawyer Peter Benenson to take a stand against human rights abuses – this at a time when human rights had little protection under international law.
		Throughout his life, Peter Benenson put human rights first, whether as a student helping to bring Jews fleeing Nazi Germany to Britain, or as a co-founder of the legal society, Justice.
		Peter Benenson, founder of AI, died on 25 February, aged 83.
	web.amnesty.org /wire/April2005/Benenson (404 words)

	Peter Benenson, founder of Amnesty International, dies - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM
		Benenson, who was educated in some of Britain's top schools, began his own human rights campaigns as a boy in support of Spanish civil war orphans and Jews fleeing Hitler's Germany.
		Born July 31, 1921, Benenson was the grandson of Grigori Benenson, a Russian-Jewish banker, and the son of Flora Solomon, who raised him alone after the death of her husband, British army Col John Solomon.
		Benenson stepped down as Amnesty's leader in the mid-1960s after an independent investigation did not support his claim that Amnesty was being infiltrated by British intelligence.
	www.jamaicaobserver.com /news/html/20050227T010000-0500_75869_OBS_PETER_BENENSON__FOUNDER_OF_AMNESTY_INTERNATIONAL__DIES.asp (740 words)

	Peter Benenson: A Light in Times of Darkness (News) Grace Hanson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Peter Benenson founded Amnesty International 44 years ago, after learning that two students were imprisoned for toasting liberty in Lisbon, Portugal.
		Benenson first articulated his vision for Amnesty International in 1961, when he wrote an article for The Observer that called for a one-year letter writing campaign to repressive authorities that failed to recognize and enforce the 1948 Declaration of Human Rights.
		Over the years, Benenson also worked to help find homes for orphans of the Spanish Civil War, championed the relocation of Jews to Britain, established a society for people with coeliac disease (which he suffered from), and observed trials as a member of the Society of Labour Lawyers.
	www.utne.com /webwatch/2005_188/news/11590-1.html (423 words)

	NAPF Programs: Youth Outreach: Peace Heroes: Peter Benenson by Gregory Ablavsky
		Peter Benenson had several outstanding qualities, of which perhaps the greatest was his faith that every person could make a difference.
		Benenson was traveling in later 1960 on the London subway, reading the Daily Telegraph, when he discovered an article about two Portuguese students who had been arrested for making a toast to freedom in a Lisbon bar.
		Benenson, however, had a long way to go before his organization was off the ground.
	www.wagingpeace.org /menu/programs/youth-outreach/peace-heroes/benenson-peter.htm (1197 words)

	CBC News: Amnesty International founder dead at 83
		The adrenalin needed to create Amnesty came from Benenson's frustration over a matter dealing with two Portuguese students who were sentenced in 1961 to seven years' imprisonment for publicly drinking a toast to liberty in a Lisbon café.
		Benenson had proof that heads of states could be swayed into action by ordinary public opinion.
		Benenson initially envisioned Amnesty as a one-year campaign, but it has since been involved in more than 47,000 cases of prisoners of conscience and victims of human rights violations.
	www.cbc.ca /story/world/national/2005/02/26/amnesty-benenson050226.html (353 words)

	news - Peter Benenson - Power of the individual (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Peter Benenson created Amnesty International in 1961, in the depths of the Cold War, at a time when the world was divided along ideological lines.
		Peter was adamant that the organisation should be politically impartial, working for people regardless of who they were, where they lived, or which government committed the abuse.
		Peter Benenson's vision -- of individuals speaking out for the forgotten prisoner and the forgotten victim, wherever they are, regardless of politics, power or religion -- remains fundamental to Amnesty International's work today.
	www.noticias.info /asp/aspComunicados.asp?nid=81433&src=0 (558 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Obituaries - Peter Benenson, Founder of Amnesty International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Benenson announced in his quiet but deliberate voice: "Better light a candle than curse the darkness." Then he struck a match and inaugurated a foundation that would stand up for liberty, the rights of man and freedom from oppression across the world.
		In 1960 Benenson was incensed over the case of two Portuguese students who had raised their glasses to toast liberty.
		Benenson struck a nerve with the public and his writings generated a flood of replies and offers of help.
	news.scotsman.com /obituaries.cfm?id=229112005 (727 words)

	AGNI \| 54 \| Non-fiction \| 'Amnesty International: Myth & Reality' by Linda Rabben
		Peter Archer was one of the colleagues with whom Benenson met at the White Swan.
		Benenson’s friends Marsh, MacBride, Archer, and Vincent also were accustomed to operating on the higher levels of government, and they may have made certain assumptions about others’ capacity to persuade rulers and bureaucrats to free prisoners.
		Benenson was inspiring and stimulating to be around but was not an organizer or manager by temperament.
	www.bu.edu /agni/essays-reviews/print/2001/54-rabben.html (7340 words)

	Jonathan Power, On the death of Peter Benenson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Benenson that year - 1960 - was as usual commuting to his law office on the Tube, reading his newspaper, when he saw a small item about two Portuguese students who had been arrested in a bar after loudly and perhaps a little drunkenly toasting the cause of freedom.
		Benenson thought for a moment and took himself off to St Martin in the Fields, the beautiful Wren church next to South Africa House.
		Benenson conceived the "threes network"- each group of Amnesty supporters would adopt three prisoners and work for their release.
	www.transnational.org /forum/power/2005/05.9_Benenson.html (795 words)

	Peter Benenson -- rights advocate
		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, has died.
		Benenson died of pneumonia Friday at John Radcliffe Hospital in London.
		Benenson came across a small article about two Portuguese students at a Lisbon restaurant who toasted freedom, were arrested and sentenced to seven years in prison.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/02/28/BAGPMBHTG71.DTL&type=printable (366 words)

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