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Practice Reading: Fill in the Blanks (Dropdown) ID: #37229 Prisoners
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The  primary  goal  for  this  year-long  campaign,  founded  by  the  English  lawyer  Peter  Benenson  and  a  small  group  of  writers,  academics  and  lawyers  including  Quaker  peace  activist  Eric  Baker,  was  to  identify  individual  prisoners  of  conscience  around  the  world  and  then  campaign  for  their  release.  In  early  1962,  the  campaign  had  received  enough  public  support  to  become  a  permanent  organization  and  was    Amnesty  International.  Under  British  law,  Amnesty  International  was  classed  as  a  political  organization  and  therefore  excluded  from  tax-free  charity  status.  To  work  around  this,  the  "Fund  for  the  Persecuted"  was  established  in  1962  to  receive  donations  to  support  prisoners  and  their  families.  The  name  was  later  changed  to  the  "Prisoners  of  Conscience  Appeal  Fund"  and  is  now  a  separate  and  independent  charity  which  provides  relief  and    grants  to  prisoners  of  conscience  in  the  UK  and  around  the  world.  Amnesty  International  has,  since  its  founding,  pressured  governments  to  release  those  persons  it  considers  to  be  prisoners  of  conscience.  Governments,  conversely,  tend  to  deny  that  the  specific  prisoners  identified  by  Amnesty  International  are,  in  fact,  being  held  on  the  grounds  Amnesty  claims;  they  allege  that  these  prisoners  pose    threats  to  the  security  of  their  countries.  The  concept  of  "Prisoners  of  conscience"  became  a  controversy  around  Nelson  Mandela's  .

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