A man protests the policies of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban during Orban's talks with Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki in Warsaw, Poland. Human Rights Watch accuses Cambodia’s government of using the pandemic as cover to imprison political opponents without due process. For a decade in Hungary, conservative nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban has curtailed media and judicial freedom, criticised multiculturalism and attacked Muslim migrants as a threat to Europe’s Christian identity. Mindaugas Kulbis/AP The coronavirus pandemic has upended life around the globe, but it hasn’t stopped the spread of authoritarianism and extremism. In Russia, the government of President Vladimir Putin has used the pandemic as its latest excuse to arrest opposition figures.

Source: Stuff July 15, 2021 09:45 UTC