Luis Kutner, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetLuis Kutner
American lawyer
Date of Birth: 09-Jun-1908
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Date of Death: 01-Mar-1993
Profession: lawyer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About Luis Kutner
- Luis Kutner (June 9, 1908 – March 1, 1993), was a US human rights activist and lawyer who co-founded Amnesty International with Peter Benenson in 1961, and created the concept of a living will.
- He was also notable for his advocacy of "world habeas corpus", the development of an international writ of habeas corpus to protect individual human rights.
- He was a founder of World Habeas Corpus, an organization created to fight for international policies which would protect individuals against unwarranted imprisonment.
- Kutner's papers are at the Hoover Institution Archives at Stanford University.Kutner gained national recognition in 1949, when he obtained freedom for a black mechanic from Waukegan, Illinois, who had served 26 years of a life term sentence for raping an itinerant.
- A Federal judge described as "a sham" the defendant's 1924 trial in which a vengeful prosecutor withheld vital evidence.
- He also helped free Hungarian Cardinal József Mindszenty, American expatriate poet Ezra Pound, former Congo President Moise Tshombe and represented the Dalai Lama and Tibet.
- Kutner is widely known as one of the most prominent human-rights attorneys of the twentieth century.In 1969, he reported Fred Hampton to the FBI.
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