{"id":467625,"date":"2022-01-13T05:00:07","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T05:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/jan\/13\/increased-repression-and-violence-a-sign-of-weakness-says-human-rights-watch"},"modified":"2022-01-13T05:00:07","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T05:00:07","slug":"increased-repression-and-violence-a-sign-of-weakness-says-human-rights-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/01\/13\/increased-repression-and-violence-a-sign-of-weakness-says-human-rights-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"Increased repression and violence a sign of weakness, says Human Rights Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watchdog\u2019s latest report argues autocrats around the world are getting desperate as opponents form coalitions to challenge them<\/p><p>Increasingly repressive and violent acts against civilian protests by autocratic leaders and military regimes around the world are signs of their desperation and weakening grip on power, Human Rights Watch says in its annual assessment of human rights across the globe.<\/p><p>In its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/world-report\/2022\">world report 2022<\/a>, the human rights organisation said autocratic leaders faced a significant backlash in 2021, with millions of people risking their lives to take to the streets to challenge regimes\u2019 authority and demand democracy.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/jan\/13\/increased-repression-and-violence-a-sign-of-weakness-says-human-rights-watch\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/jan\/13\/increased-repression-and-violence-a-sign-of-weakness-says-human-rights-watch\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watchdog\u2019s latest report argues autocrats around the world are getting desperate as opponents form coalitions to challenge themIncreasingly repressive and violent acts against civilian protests by autocratic leaders and military regimes around the worl&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1317,1207,190,471,1333,6,640,1336,1589,8139,1156,24,2038,1320,1641,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467625"}],"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\/1313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":467630,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467625\/revisions\/467630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}