Torture is banned but in two-thirds of the world's countries it is still being committed in secret. Too many governments still allow wrongful imprisonment, murder or "disappearance" to be carried out by their officials with impunity.

The allegations were rejected and Benenson resigned from AI. He enrolled for study at Balliol College Oxford but World War II interrupted his education. Auden before going to Eton.

Peter Benenson (31 July 1921 – 25 February 2005) was a British lawyer and the founder of human rights group Amnesty International (AI).