AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
Thank you for your support. In many countries however, that support would be a punishable offence.
Thousands of people are imprisoned for such actions by governments who subscribe to ideologies of both
left and right.
These regimes are equally adept at imprisoning people simply because their political or religious beliefs are at odds with those of the state. They can even imprison people because they are the wrong colour, wrong race or speak the wrong language.
I was to assist the prisoners, to show them that they're not forgotten, that Amnesty International was started in Britain in 1961. By 1977 its achievments were marked by the Nobel prize.
But Amnesty is in no position to pretend its job is done. More prisoners are incarcerated every year. You can help them by helping us.
Please join our campaign.
Mark Knopfler
[Taken from the CD 'The Secret Policeman's Third Ball']
Thousands of people are in prison because of their beliefs. Many are held without charge or trial. Torture and the death penalty are widespread. In many countries men, women and children have "disappeared" after being taken into official custody. Still others have been killed without any pretense of legality. These human rights abuses occur in countries of widely differing ideologies.
Amnesty International is a worldwide movement of people acting on the conviction that governments must not deny individuals their basic human rights. The organization was awarded the 1977 Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to promote global observance of the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
"When the first two hundred letters came, the guards gave me back my clothes. Then the next two hundred letters came, and the prison director came to see me. When the next pile of letters arrived, the director got in touch with his superior. The letters kept coming and coming: three thousand of them. The President was informed. The letters still kept arriving, and the President called the prison and told them to let me go."
A released prisoner from the Dominican Republic
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