{"id":168357,"date":"2021-02-24T12:34:54","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T17:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=168357"},"modified":"2021-02-24T13:14:33","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T18:14:33","slug":"amnesty-international-strips-aleksei-navalny-of-prisoner-of-conscience-status-for-decades-old-comments-on-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/amnesty-international-strips-aleksei-navalny-of-prisoner-of-conscience-status-for-decades-old-comments-on-immigration\/","title":{"rendered":"Amnesty International Strips Aleksei Navalny Of \u2018Prisoner Of Conscience\u2019 Status For Decades-Old Comments On Immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Famnesty-international-strips-aleksei-navalny-of-prisoner-of-conscience-status-for-decades-old-comments-on-immigration%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=168357&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Alexei-Navalny-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Amnesty International, which advocates, in part, for individuals who are imprisoned by totalitarian governments over dissent, has stripped Russian anti-Putin activist Aleksei Navalny of its \u201cPrisoner of Conscience\u201d status for \u201cfar-right\u201d comments Navalny made about immigrants more than a decade ago.<\/p>\n<p>Amnesty International granted Navalny \u201cPrisoner of Conscience\u201d status in January following his detention in Moscow, after returning to Russia from Germany, where he had been recovering following what many believe to be an assassination attempt by poisoning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAleksei Navalny\u2019s arrest is further evidence that Russian authorities are seeking to silence him. His detention only highlights the need to investigate his allegations that he was poisoned by state agents acting on orders from the highest levels,\u201d Natalia Zviagina, Amnesty International\u2019s Moscow Office Director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/latest\/news\/2021\/01\/russia-aleksei-navalny-becomes-prisoner-of-conscience-after-arrest-on-arrival-in-moscow\/\">said in a statement back in January<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Navalny, of course, is an anti-corruption activist who has often targeted the Putin government. He\u2019s been imprisoned a number of times, most recently because he missed a hearing in a criminal case \u2014 a hearing that happened while Navalny was in a coma.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Russian authorities have waged a relentless campaign against Navalny,\u201d Zviagina said. \u201cWhile he was recovering in Germany, the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service demanded that he immediately present himself to a probation officer or face prison for violating a non-custodial criminal sentence, which was based on politically motivated charges. He has now been arrested for multiple violations of the probationary period.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amnesty International was clear to note that Navalny was being targeted for \u201cfree speech.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Late Tuesday, though, the organization tasked with protecting those who espouse unpopular opinions from punishment dropped their support for Navalny, ironically over an unpopular opinion Navalny expressed 15 years ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-56181084\">according to the BBC<\/a>, which the organization termed \u201chate speech.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmnesty International has stripped the Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny of his \u2018prisoner of conscience\u2019 status after it says it was \u2018bombarded\u2019 with complaints highlighting xenophobic comments that he has made in the past and not renounced,\u201d the outlet said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA spokesman for the human rights organization in Moscow told the BBC that he believed the wave of requests to \u2018de-list\u2019 Navalny was part of an \u2018orchestrated campaign\u2019 to discredit Vladimir Putin\u2019s most vocal critic and \u2018impede\u2019 Amnesty\u2019s calls for his release from custody,\u201d the BBC noted. \u201cBut on review, Amnesty International concluded that comments made by Navalny some 15 years ago, including a video which appears to compare immigrants to cockroaches, amounted to \u2018hate speech\u2019 which was incompatible with the label \u2018prisoner of conscience.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The calls to revoke Navalny\u2019s status came from a number of accounts, the outlet notes, that quoted a pro-Kremlin journalist, who labeled Navalny a \u201cracist\u201d and accused Navalny\u2019s supporters of glossing over his \u201cnationalism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The journalist, Katya Kazbek, describes herself as a \u201cfeminist, LGBT researcher, citizen of the world,\u201d but her \u201cposts include praise of Stalin\u201d and she regularly opines that Navalny is an anti-Putin plant by the United States government.<\/p>\n<p>While Russian state media called Amnesty International\u2019s decision a \u201chuge victory\u201d for Russia, Amnesty International tried to defend its decision, noting that individuals who are unapologetic for their own \u201chate speech\u201d will not receive the organization\u2019s protection.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNavalny has not publicly denounced his YouTube videos so our idea is that somehow he can relate to what he said,\u201d a spokesperson for Amnesty International told the BBC. \u201cHe cannot be a prisoner of conscience: that is someone who never advocates hate or violence or uses hate speech.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Social media users were quick to call Amnesty International\u2019s decision embarrassing and a boon to the Russian government.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">\u201cWhat a disgrace from<\/span> <span class=\"r-18u37iz\"><a class=\"css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1n1174f r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/amnesty\" data-focusable=\"true\">@amnesty<\/a><\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">. Classic example of an organization failing in its core mission. Congratulations on making some of the worst people in the Kremlin very happy today,\u201d one user noted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">Amnesty International<\/span> <span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">is no longer an institution that cares about rights and civil liberties,\u201d added another. \u201cThey only care about the rights and civil liberties of people who agree with their politics.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amnesty International, which advocates, in part, for individuals who are imprisoned by totalitarian governments over dissent, has stripped Russian anti-Putin activist Aleksei Navalny of its \u201cPrisoner of Conscience\u201d status for &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2274133,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Alexei-Navalny-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Amnesty International Strips Aleksei Navalny Of \u2018Prisoner Of Conscience\u2019 Status For Decades-Old Comments On Immigration","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Alexei-Navalny-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Amnesty International Strips Aleksei Navalny Of \u2018Prisoner Of Conscience\u2019 Status For Decades-Old Comments On Immigration","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2274133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}