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Message 83295 - Posted: 28 Feb 2005, 14:09:39 UTC

Peter Benenson, the British lawyer who in 1960 spawned the Nobel Prize-winning human rights group Amnesty International, has died at the age of 83.

"Peter Benenson's life was a courageous testament to his visionary commitment to fight injustice around the world," Amnesty International Secretary-General Irene Khan said in a statement.

"He brought light into the darkness of prisons, the horror of torture chambers and tragedy of death camps around the world," she added.

Benenson died on Friday in Oxford, England, Amnesty said.
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