"Please forgive me for any misunderstandings of the RfC form, or the subject matter.  I'm a Yank, just responding to the RfC as a mitzvah to balance starting another RfC.  I'm hoping to help out as a neutral partyand this RfC section is reading more as a political disagreement than as a discussion of Wikipedia policy and guidelines.

To me the obituary in question appears to be appropriate to use as a reference for a statement along the lines of, ""even after his death, critics believe his past overshadows his later life.""  Possibly at the end of the second paragraph of ""Arrest and imprisonment.""

Also, and this is a little off topic, having an entire section titled ""Tributes"" seems at first blush to mark this article as significantly POV.  Perhaps this is a cultural anomaly?

 

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