Open your newspaper - any day of the week - and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are unacceptable to his government.

The allegations were rejected and Benenson resigned from AI. He enrolled for study at Balliol College Oxford but World War II interrupted his education. Auden before going to Eton.

Peter Benenson (31 July 1921 – 25 February 2005) was a British lawyer and the founder of human rights group Amnesty International (AI).