Half a century ago, when I was a graduate student, one of my teachers had been a founder of Amnesty. At that point, its sole agenda was to free "prisoners of conscience," meaning people who were imprisoned or persecuted solely because of what they said or believed. It didn't matter who they were or what they thought, so long as the punishment was purely for their expression, not for any criminal or subversive activities linked to them. Then sometime in the 80's, the organization was taken over by radicals with a totally different agenda; they actually wanted to see people who thought differently than them punished in a variety of ways, and they excused persecution of others by their favored groups. I quit long ago.