Leah Levin, a British activist who wrote a seminal U.N. book on human rights and who led a watchdog group that helped free the “Birmingham Six,” whose convictions for deadly bombings were overturned 16 years later after probes into police abuses, died May 25 in London. She was 98.
In many ways, Ms. Levin’s lifelong dedication to rights advocacy was built upon her personal journey, beginning with her family fleeing their native Lithuania for South Africa in the late 1920s amid rising antisemitism. Then, in the 1960s, Ms. Levin and her children left Rhodesia when her husband, Archie Levin, feared arrest by White-rule authorities seeking to silence his political activism.“That was the beginning of what I call the me of now,” Ms.
After the death of her husband that same year, Ms. Levin immersed herself even deeper in human rights causes. Among her jobs was writing what became one of the most widely distributedThe book, now translated into 36 languages, is a history lesson and users’ manual for rights groups and activists. She led readers through the development of modern international rights standards from the Magna Carta to the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948.
In 1982, Ms. Levin became director the legal reform group Justice, whose work includes supporting those alleging they were wronged by British courts and law enforcement. At the time, six men from Northern Ireland were serving life sentences in Britain after convictions in 1975 forThe Birmingham blasts claimed 21 lives and injured more than 180 people, then the bloodiest incidents in England linked to the Irish Republican Army and its fight to end British rule of Northern Ireland.
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)
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