an international organization founded in Britain in 1961 that works to secure the release of people imprisoned for their beliefs, to ban the use of torture, and to abolish the death penalty
Abbreviation: AI
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Am′nesty Interna′tional,
- Governmentan independent worldwide organization working against human-rights violations and for the release of persons imprisoned for political or religious dissent;
Nobel peace prize 1977. Abbr.: AI, A.I.
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