WASHINGTON: Human Rights Watch warned on Wednesday (Feb 4) that President Donald Trump was turning the USA into an authoritarian state as democracy declines globally to its lowest ebb in 4 many years.
Trump’s return to the White Home has intensified a “downward spiral” on human rights that was already below stress from Russia and China, the New York-based advocacy and analysis group mentioned in its annual report.
“The foundations-based worldwide order is being crushed,” HRW mentioned.
In the USA, the group mentioned, Trump has proven “blatant disregard for human rights and egregious violations”.
In descriptions that may have been unthinkable within the US part of its earlier annual reviews, the group pointed to the deployment of masked, armed brokers – the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) company – which has carried out “hundreds of unnecessarily violent and abusive raids”.
“The administration’s racial and ethnic scapegoating, home deployment of Nationwide Guard forces in pretextual energy grabs, repeated acts of retaliation in opposition to perceived political enemies and former officers now crucial of him, in addition to makes an attempt to develop the coercive powers of the manager and neuter democratic checks and balances, underpin a determined shift towards authoritarianism within the US,” the report mentioned.
Human Rights Watch repeated its discovering that the USA engaged in enforced disappearances – a criminal offense below worldwide regulation – by sending 252 Venezuelan migrants to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador.
In a current report, HRW documented allegations by the boys, who ultimately had been allowed into Venezuela, of being tortured together with beatings and sexual violence.
