London, July 10 (ANI): Human rights organization Amnesty International is set to launch its first regular television program that aims mobilize new generation with entertainment and inspiring stories.
Amnesty TV will be a fortnightly, 15-minute, online, magazine-style show that will blend satirical comedy with documentaries and news about human rights campaigns around the globe, the Guardian reports.
The producers behind TV shows The Inbetweeners, Starsuckers and Newswipe have put together the first episode for broadcast at www.amnestytv.co.uk and via YouTube.
It will feature Aung San Suu Kyi, with a special message recorded to mark 50 years of Amnesty, as well as an item from Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, who will deliver a polemic on Internet freedom in front of a group of children who are making a collage of China's recent history of censorship.
"It was very exciting and interesting for me. Amnesty arranged for me to go and meet and talk with schoolchildren about issues of freedom of speech in China," said Wales.
"I am a big fan of Amnesty's work. I find it incredibly useful for providing a central clearing house of information about what is going on in the world," Wales added.
Amnesty was founded after English lawyer Peter Benenson wrote an impassioned article in the Observer, entitled "The Forgotten Prisoners", highlighting the plight of people who had been jailed for peacefully expressing their views. (ANI)
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