Long reach of ‘cancel culture’

Before retreating, Amnesty explicitly said that it knew about his past statements but considered them 'not relevant' because of his political plight.

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny's designation by Amnesty International as a 'prisoner of conscience' was dropped because he 'made comments which may have amounted to advocacy of hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, violence, or hostility.'Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

March 4, 2021

LONDON, U.K.—By now, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny will have reached correctional facility No. 2 (IK-2), where he will be spending the next two and a half years in one of the harshest penal colonies in the Russian prison system.

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