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On Wednesday, the NGO Amnesty International announced that Navaln would no longer be considered a “prisoner of conscience” because he had spoken out in the past about violence and discrimination, but did not distance himself from such statements.
Indeed, Navaln has called immigrants “cockroaches” in the past, with a dismissive response to potatoes and a call for their deportation from Russia.
The organization, which claims to have reviewed Navaln’s statements since 2005, is still calling for his release and takes the position that the opposition is being jailed for political reasons.
Leonidas Volkov, a partner of A. Navalnas currently living in Lithuania, stated on Twitter that the Secretary General of Amnesty International publicly thanked him for the “constructive conversation”, although he never spoke to her.
Another neighbor of A. Navaln, Ruslan Shavedinov, announced that he was resigning from prison of conscience status, which was granted to him in 2019.
In 1964 Amnesty International recalled Nelson Mandela, a pro-apartheid activist in South Africa (PAR).
After spending 27 years in prison, he later became president of the country. In 1993, Mandela was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for “working for the peaceful abolition of the apartheid regime and laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa.”
What is changing?
Laurynas Jonavičius, a professor at the Institute of International Relations and Political Science at Vilnius University and a political scientist, says that the status of a prisoner of conscience does not significantly protect people imprisoned in Russia, so their deprivation will not significantly change A. Navnas’ situation.
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