Amnesty defined prisoners of conscience as nonviolent holders of sincerely held opinions.

Evidence

Amnesty described its mandate as working for adequate treatment of all prisoners, fighting for the rule of law, and seeking the release of those it called ‘prisoners of conscience’, defined as ‘any person who is physically restrained (by imprisonment or otherwise) from expressing (in any form of words or symbols) any opinion which he honestly holds and which does not advocate or condone personal violence’. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 344

Categorization

• DEFINE: The precise Amnesty ‘prisoner of conscience’ definition, including the key exclusion of those who ‘advocate or condone personal violence’ — relevant to the book’s argument about how human rights discourse shapes political legitimacy.
• XREF: connects to: Amnesty’s nonviolence doctrine privileged speech and excluded anticolonial armed resistance — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 349; Amnesty International’s founding focus was conscience and spiritual personhood, not bodily suffering — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 348; Amnesty’s nonviolent impartiality closed off political imagination and empowered market access — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 372

Broader Connections

• Amnesty’s nonviolence doctrine privileged speech and excluded anticolonial armed resistance #expands (0.85) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 349
• Amnesty’s nonviolent impartiality closed off political imagination and empowered market access #expands (0.85) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 372
• Amnesty International’s founding focus was conscience and spiritual personhood, not bodily suffering #expands (0.80) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 348