Police across the world have been given licence to control behaviour in a way that would normally be extreme even for an authoritarian state. ‘We can’t go back to normal’: how will coronavirus change the world? Elsewhere, in Punjab, people accused of breaking quarantine rules were made to do squats while chanting: “We are enemies of society. Human Rights Watch has pointed out that such action is most likely to be counterproductive if offenders are then placed in overcrowded detention facilities. In a recent report, Human Rights Watch said that freedom of expression and access to information should be protected by governments.

Source: The Guardian April 01, 2020 01:01 UTC