Amnesty International rejected an appeal to come to the aid of an Australian citizen who is sitting in a German jail awaiting trial for promotion of Holocaust denial and other anti-Semitic slurs. Declining to help Fred Toben, an Amnesty official wrote in a letter that the human-rights group excludes from “prisoner of conscience status not only people who have used or advocated violence, but also people who are imprisoned for having advocated national, racial or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence.”
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