'In 2005, Irene Khan, then secretary general of Amnesty, described the American detention center in Guantanamo Bay as "the Gulag of our time." She compared the Soviet forced-labor camps, where three million people died of hunger, cold and executions, to a US military base where no prisoner has died, and which has prevented countless innocent civilians from being blown up.
It seems that Amnesty International abandoned the battle of human rights in favor of a grotesque anti-Western bias. This shift is why the British weekly, The Economist, accused Amnesty International of "reserving more pages to human rights abuses in Britain and the United States than in Belarus and Saudi Arabia." This is the same muddled moral equivalence that probably led Amnesty International to use the same languagefor Italian "hotspots" as for the Saydnaya prison in Syria, run by the regime of Bashar al Assad.'
More on the ideological bias of Amnesty International here https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9342/amnesty-international-tyrannies but obviously not on the anti West BBC.
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