Amnesty marks prisoners’ week
PA Wellington About 100 people, including about 12 members of Parliament, gathered" at Parliament yesterday to mark the start of Amnesty International's Prisoner of Conscience Week; The week is the human rights organisation’s annual attempt to- highlight the plight of political prisoners in overseas countries by . using a certain theme this.
year, prisoners from rural backgrounds. The Minister of Justice, Mr McLay, lit Amnesty’s symbolic candle and case histories were read by the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Mr Lange; Federated Farmers'' vice-president, Mr Peter Elworthy; a Federation of Labour councillor, Mrs Sonja Davies; and Monsignor Owen Dolan, VicarGeneral of the Archdiocese of Wellington.
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Press, 13 October 1982, Page 2
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