{"id":110209,"date":"2021-04-07T05:01:35","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T05:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/apr\/07\/uks-headlong-rush-into-abandoning-human-rights-rebuked-by-amnesty"},"modified":"2021-04-07T05:01:35","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T05:01:35","slug":"uks-headlong-rush-into-abandoning-human-rights-rebuked-by-amnesty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/04\/07\/uks-headlong-rush-into-abandoning-human-rights-rebuked-by-amnesty\/","title":{"rendered":"UK&#8217;s &#8216;headlong rush into abandoning human rights&#8217; rebuked by Amnesty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Covid failings, crackdown on protest, police discrimination and resumed arms trade with Saudi Arabia all listed in annual report<\/p><p>Amnesty International has published a stark rebuke of the UK government\u2019s stance on human rights, saying that it is \u201cspeeding towards the cliff edge\u201d in its policies on housing and immigration, and criticising its seeming determination to end the legal right for the public to challenge government decisions in court.<\/p><p>In its annual report on human rights around the world, Amnesty International says the UK\u2019s increasingly hostile attitude towards upholding and preserving human rights legislation raises \u201cserious concerns\u201d.<\/p><p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/apr\/06\/narcos-are-looking-for-me-deadly-threats-to-perus-indigenous-leaders\">'Narcos are looking for me': deadly threats to Peru's indigenous leaders<\/a> <\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/apr\/07\/uks-headlong-rush-into-abandoning-human-rights-rebuked-by-amnesty\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/apr\/07\/uks-headlong-rush-into-abandoning-human-rights-rebuked-by-amnesty\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Covid failings, crackdown on protest, police discrimination and resumed arms trade with Saudi Arabia all listed in annual reportAmnesty International has published a stark rebuke of the UK government\u2019s stance on human rights, saying that it is \u201cspeedin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2088,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1168,1317,338,1333,905,6,3055,640,1258,13,2675,84,520,1314,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110209"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2088"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110210,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110209\/revisions\/110210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}