Priti Patel's immigration clampdowns part of a global 2022 wave of authoritarianism, claim campaigners #NationalityandBordersBill' inews.co.uk/news/world/pri…
'Yasmine Ahmed, UK director of Human Rights Watch, told i that one of the most concerning trends the world is seeing is the rise of oppressive regimes and right-wing populism. She pointed to the Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, sabotaging public health measures in his country
.. aimed at curbing the spread of Covid, as well as the brutal military junta in Myanmar, which has arbitrarily arrested and detained several thousand people who protested after the February coup.'
Authoritarianism has also spread in the most unlikely places.“What’s really worrying & what we’ve seen over the past few years, is it’s not exclusively only countries which we may have considered the global south, we're seeing tendencies like that in very established democracies”
She added that there were a “slew of bills” going through the UK Parliament such as Home Secretary Priti Patel’s #policingbill & her #bordersbill – which “culminate in what I would say the most worrying undermining of our democratic society that we’ve seen in the last 50 years”
“In the UK, there’s nothing short of an onslaught of attacks on democratic values,” she added. “We saw what happened in the US in terms of women’s rights to reproductive health and voter rights.' #NationalityandBordersBill #PolicingBill #HumanRightsDay inews.co.uk/news/world/pri…
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