By forcing the standards of “wokeness” on a Western institution like Amnesty International, the Kremlin has weakened Russian dissident Aleksei Navalny as he begins his almost three years in a Siberian labor camp. Everyone understands he is a political prisoner, isolated from Russian political life. That is the definition of “prisoner of conscience,” which Amnesty International has chosen to withdraw from his name.
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Paul Gregory: West’s ‘wokeness’ helped Russia to redefine a ‘prisoner of conscience’
People attend a rally in support of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny in Saint Petersburg on Jan. 23, 2021.
