LONDON/BANGKOK/DELHI - In Armenia, journalists must by law include information from the government in their stories about COVID-19. In the Philippines, the president has told security forces that if anyone violates the lockdown they should “shoot them dead”. In Hungary, the premier can rule by decree indefinitely.
“In many ways, the virus risks replicating the reaction to Sept. 11,” said Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, referring to the welter of security and surveillance legislation imposed around the world after the al Qaeda attacks on the United States that killed nearly 3,000 people.
South Korea’s use of mobile phone and other data to track potential carriers of the virus and impose quarantines has been a successful strategy and is a model that could be replicated around the world to guard against pandemics, they say. By its count, 68 countries have so far made emergency declarations, while nine have introduced measures that affect expression, 11 have ratcheted up surveillance and a total of 72 have imposed restrictions on assembly.
Elsewhere in Southeast Asia, Thailand’s Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, a former coup leader who kept power after a disputed election last year, has invoked emergency powers that allow him to return to governing by decree. The powers run to the end of the month, but also can be extended.
I will die if you insist your civil right to break the rules of protections.
In global war on coronavirus, some fear civil rights are the target.
There are more guns that people in America. If we lose any of our freedoms and rights in America after this is over, then ThomasJefferson’s words about the “Tree of Liberty” could possibly become a reality. coronavirus
To live is the biggest juman right
Yeah, and Reuters who is one of the chief propagandists in the world will help destroy humanity for the Technocrats.
Many of those some are not really for human rights, they serve political agendas like this hrw
Survival is the only things rights can come in any time later