How does a non-profit organization with a strand of barbed wire winding around a lit candle as its logo trace its origins to two Portuguese prisoners?

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If this is the logo here: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_niPwTW3rBbU/STlhFFbc_FI/AAAAAAAAB68/t-hiESiCVUg/s400/amnesty+international+logo The organization is Amnesty International. Peter Benenson, a British lawyer, founded Amnesty International in 1961. Benenson had heard about two Portuguese men who were arrested and in the process of receiving seven-year prison sentences for simply raising their glasses in a toast to freedom. Because of this, he decided to take action on behalf of these prisoners. “It was necessary to think of a larger group which would harness their enthusiasm of people all over the world who were anxious to see a wider respect for human rights” said Benenson. http://learningtogive.org/papers/paper234.html http://www.amnesty.org/en/who-we-are/history Nov 03 09, 8:36 PM

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