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RIP Tom Blumenau

By | Wed 23rd September 2009 - 6:22 pm

From the Guardian’s obituary:

Tom had a strong social conscience and a feeling of moral obligation towards both individuals and the wider community. He was a magistrate for 15 years, a founder member of the Social Democratic party (SDP) and active in the constituency party for the SDP and later for the Liberal Democrats. Arguably his most fulfilling work was with Amnesty International (of which, together with his wife, Eva, he was a founder member) and with its offspring, the Prisoner of Conscience Fund. He set up and later became the chairman of the St John’s Wood, London, branch of Amnesty International, and was for several years the director of the Prisoner of Conscience Fund. Under his leadership the fund increased its income enormously and its capacity to help hardship cases, particularly during the wars in Bosnia. His work was recognised in 2002 when he was appointed OBE “for services in the field of human rights”.

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