Amnesty International no longer calling Alexei Navalny a prisoner of conscience

Bermet Talant (@ser_ou_parecer) Tweeted: I’m Kyrgyz. So I take Navalny’s past ethno-nationalist and xenophobic statements personally. But Amnesty’s decision is wrong, and I don’t like the cynical misapplication of western liberal standards of debate around racism and hate speech. 1/x

https://twitter.com/ser_ou_parecer/status/1364645136572022789?s=20

Huh? [Googles.] Oh.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/24/alexei-navalny-loses-amnesty-prisoner-of-conscience-label

Maybe they felt burned by Aung San Suu Kyi?

I guess things are never as simple as we’d like, eh?

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