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Title: Prisoners of Conscience
Author : Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
Release Date : January 01, 1919
Genre: Fiction & Literature,Books,
Pages : * pages
Size : 554 KB

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This is a story book. Prisoner of conscience (POC) is a term coined by Peter Benenson in a 28 May 1961 article ('The Forgotten Prisoners') for the London Observer newspaper. Most often associated with the human rights organisation Amnesty International, the term can refer to anyone imprisoned because of their race, sexual orientation, religion, or political views. It also refers to those who have been imprisoned and/or persecuted for the non-violent expression of their conscientiously held beliefs. Any person who is physically restrained (by imprisonment or otherwise) from expressing (in any form of words or symbols) any opinion which he honestly holds and which does not advocate or condone personal violence. We also exclude those people who have conspired with a foreign government to overthrow their own.