Amnesty International apologizes to Russia's Navalny, restores 'prisoner of conscience' status

ReutersPublished: May 8, 2021 12:58 AM

Amnesty International on Friday apologized to jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny for stripping him of its "prisoner of conscience" status and said it would restore the designation.

Amnesty announced on Feb. 24 that it would stop referring to Navalny as a prisoner of conscience on the grounds that in the past he had made comments that qualified as advocacy of hatred...

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