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      8 months ago

      But 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 “hate speech” which was incompatible with the label “prisoner of conscience”. Source

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        15 years ago

        A spokesman for the human rights organisation in Moscow told the BBC that he believed the wave of requests to “de-list” Navalny was part of an “orchestrated campaign” to discredit Vladimir Putin’s most vocal critic

        “We had too many requests; we couldn’t ignore them,” spokesman Alexander Artemev told the BBC

        quoted a Twitter thread by Katya Kazbek, a freelance columnist published by the pro-Kremlin channel RT amongst others

        Ms Kazbek, a pseudonym, describes herself online as a “feminist, LGBT researcher, citizen of the world”, but

        other English-language Twitter accounts have regularly

        the move has already been hailed by RT editor Margarita Simonyan on Twitter, who noted the success of “our columnist” Katya Kazbek

        Nelson Mandela had also been stripped of the status in the 1960s

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          That’s fair. Many of us have said controversial things in our past, and people change. He can be held up as a symbol for Russian liberation. But, to invite his wife to another country for its annual gathering is to invite those past transgressions and criticisms. It’s problematic.