Where was Amnesty International founded?
“Amnesty International was founded in London in July 1961 by English labour lawyer, Peter Benenson. According to his own account, which is subject to controversy, he was travelling in the London Underground on 19 November 1960, when he read of two Portuguese students who had been sentenced to seven years of imprisonment for having drunk a toast to liberty. In his famous newspaper article The Forgotten Prisoners, Benenson later described his reaction as follows: “Open your newspaper any day of the week and you will find a story from somewhere of someone being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions are unacceptable to his government […] The newspaper reader feels a sickening sense of impotence. Yet if these feelings of disgust could be united into common action, something effective could be done.” Benenson and his friend Eric Baker, in consultation with other writer
