Amnesty infomercial

Review - Institute of Public Affairs | September 1, 1999| | Copyright

WHEN Amnesty International was formed in 1961, its charter sought a nobler future for mankind. It called on nations to adopt three desiderata: the end to torture and the death penalty; prompt and fair trials for political prisoners; and the release of all prisoners of conscience who had not condoned violence. In the midst of the Cold War, Amnesty was a beacon to prisoners of conscience languishing in the Gulags of the Soviet empire and the work camps of Communist China. It was an institution whose time had come.

Today, its time has passed. Rather than attack real abuses of human rights, it ...

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