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Amnesty International

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Amnesty International
Amnesty International logo.svg
Type Non-profit
NGO
Founded July 1961 by Peter Benenson in Britain
Location Global
General secretariat in London
Key people Salil Shetty (Secretary-General)
Services supposedly "human rights"
Method Media attention, direct-appeal campaigns, research, lobbying
Members More than 3 million members and supporters
Motto It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.[1]
Website www.amnesty.org
Peter Benenson founder of Amnesty International.

Amnesty International (AI) is a Jewish-founded international non-governmental organization (NGO) that claims to promote human rights by supporting campaigns to free all prisoners of conscience; ensure fair and prompt trials for political prisoners; abolish the death penalty, torture, and other cruel treatment of prisoners; end political killings and forced "disappearances"; and oppose all human rights abuses, whether by governments or by opposition groups. Historically, especially during the Cold War, its main purpose has been a means for Western "liberals" and "social-democrats" to fellow travel for the communists.

It was founded by Peter Benenson, a communist-sympathizing Jew born in the United Kingdom. Benenson claimed to have converted to the Catholic Church, but set-up Amnesty in the first place specifically to attack António de Oliveira Salazar and the Estado Novo in Portugal. Benenson was encouraged by co-tribalist Louis Blom-Cooper, a Jewish lawyer and media "watchdog" figure in the United Kingdom.

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Opposition to Freedom of Speech

Amnesty International has often stated that the so called "hate speech" (by which they intend any criticism of races other than white, homosexuals and so on) should be persecuted. In fact "hate speech" is what is now seen by liberals as a form of opposition to their politics of mass immigration. Amnesty International seems so to support the mainstream policy of don't let them speak against political opposition.

Communist terror

Amnesty International as a rule, did not protest against communistic terror, and did not defend its victims, except the very few cases, when communist terror was applyed to Jews.

Activity in Hungary

Adele Eisenstein, presidential member of AI Hungary

In Hungary, AI criticizes the Hungarian constitution, because it

  • Guarantees protection of human life from the time of conception
  • Marriage is defined as a life-long connection between a man and a woman
  • Introduces real life long incarceration
  • Does not forbid disadvantegous discrimination according to sexual orientation

AI thinks, these points hurt human rights norm in Europe and world wide. AI clearly contradicts to Christian values and tries to destroy human culture and moral with this activity.

References

  1. History – The Meaning of the Amnesty Candle. Amnesty International. Retrieved on 4 June 2008.

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