Amnesty scraps Navalny 'conscience' status

By Tom Balmforth
Updated February 25 2021 - 5:44am, first published 5:41am
Alexei Navalny has been criticised for making disparaging remarks about migrants.
Alexei Navalny has been criticised for making disparaging remarks about migrants.

Amnesty International no longer considers jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny a "prisoner of conscience" due to past comments he made that qualify as advocacy of hatred, the group says.

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