`The Truth Will Set You Free': The Making of Amnesty International
@article{Buchanan2002TheTW,
title={`The Truth Will Set You Free': The Making of Amnesty International},
author={T. Buchanan},
journal={Journal of Contemporary History},
year={2002},
volume={37},
pages={575 - 597}
}Although I was no longer at the Bar I would go down to Chambers each day to lend a hand with the work of 'Justice'. It was on the 19th November 1960 as I was reading in the Tube rather uncharacteristically 'The Daily Telegraph' that I came on a short paragraph that related how two Portuguese students had been sentenced to terms of imprisonment for no other offence than having drunk a toast to liberty in a Lisbon restaurant. Perhaps because I am particularly attached to liberty, perhaps because… CONTINUE READING
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