Tuesday, August 2, 2011

What is this saying please I don't understand?

For The Observer newspaper, requesting a campaign to protest about such forgotten prisoners as the students, and giving details of six other cases. The article was reprinted in other papers around the world. The paper responded by launching a campaign called 'Appeal for Amnesty 1961'. The public supported the campaign by writing letters of support, by sending information of further cases and with offers of help. Within six months the organisation was being established, by delegates from the UK, Belgium, the US, France, Germany, Ireland and Switzerland. Within a year, it had 210 cases and sections in seven countries. The organisation is easily recognised by its famous symbol, a flaming candle wrapped in barbed wire. One example of a real-life Amnesty International candle is at Salisbury Cathedral in England, underneath a stained glass 'Prisoners of Conscience' window in the Cathedral's Trinity Chapel. The window was designed in 1980 by a stained-glass artist called Gabriel Loire from Chartres, and is accompanied by details of various prisoners of conscience.

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