Irene Khan

Irene Khan

female, 52 years old
Muslim, Harvard Law School alumni, activist, Human Rights, secretary general, University of Manchester…amnestyinternational
Irene Khan, the Secretary General of Amnesty International led a high level
Leonard Peltier

Leonard Peltier

male, 65 years old
convicted of murder, American, amnestyinternational, From North Dakota, Ojibwa, COINTELPRO targets
Leonard Peltier is a Native American activist and member of the American Indian Movement. In 1977 he was convicted and sentenced to two consecutive...
Chris Hedges

Chris Hedges

male, 53 years old
Laila Al-Arian, Christopher L. Hedges, Christian Science Monitor, Harvard Divinity School alumni, American, the nation…amnestyinternational
Chris Hedges is a senior fellow at The Nation Institute and a Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and the Anschutz Distinguished Fellow at...
Peter Benenson

Peter Benenson

male, deceased (2005)
Roman Catholic, amnestyinternational, Human rights activist, English, declined a British honour, bletchley park
Peter James Henry Solomon Benenson (July 31, 1921 - February 25 2005) was an English lawyer and the founder of human rights group Amnesty...

Kate Allen

female, 54 years old
Honorary Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford, amnestyinternational, British, activist, Alumni of Brasenose College, Oxford, amnesty international uk
Katherine Allen (Born 25 January 1955) is the Director of Amnesty International UK (AIUK)
Rebiya Kadeer

Rebiya Kadeer

female, 62 years old
amnestyinternational, poverty, Uyghur activist, PRC, Business Person, Congressional Research Service
Rebiya Kadeer is a prominent Uyghur businesswoman and political activist from the northwest region of Xinjiang in the People's Republic of China....
Idi Amin

Idi Amin

male, deceased (2003)
Al Hadji, Doctor, ethnic persecution, 1971 Ugandan coup d'état, hajji, british colonial…International Commission of Jurist
Idi Amin Dada (mid-1920s -16 August 2003) was an army officer and president of Uganda. Amin joined the British colonial regiment, the King's...
Gao Zhisheng

Gao Zhisheng

male
Soldier, amnestyinternational, Law of the People's Republic of China, Politics of the People's Republic of China, Dagens Nyheter, Human Rights
Gao Zhisheng, age 41, is a Chinese army veteran, self taught lawyer and Christian whose law practice has been suspended by the Chinese authorities.
Mordechai Vanunu

Mordechai Vanunu

male, 55 years old (Israel)
Nuclear weapons and Israel, convert to Anglicanism, Palestinian state, Jewish state, Israeli Christian, Israeli nuclear development…amnestyinternational
The traitor "' (born Marrakech, Morocco, October 13 1954), also known by his baptismal name John Crossman"', is an Israeli former nuclear...
Álvaro Uribe

Álvaro Uribe

male, 57 years old
President of Colombia, National Leader, politician, Harvard, colombian, lawyer…amnestyinternational
President Uribe reacted to this most recent scandal by purging the military. But he tellingly said that human-rights scandals "make us look bad,"...