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TODAY IS: The 40th anniversary of the founding of the Nobel Prize-winning organization Amnesty International, begun by London lawyer Peter Berenson in 1961 to fight for the rights of prisoners around the world. One of the most harrowing depictions of precisely the kind of inhumane prison conditions AI protests can be found in 1978's MIDNIGHT EXPRESS, about a drug-smuggling American sentenced to a nightmare of a prison in Turkey. |
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