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Emergency measures invoked used to enforce lockdowns
during the coronavirus pandemic can’t be used to abuse detainees, the United Nations’ top human rights official warned.
Locking up curfew breakers who were simply looking for food in already overcrowded prisons is just one example, Michelle Bachelet, the High Commissioner for Human Rights, said on Monday.
Reports of police enforcing lockdowns with excessive and at times lethal force are “deeply worrying cases where governments appear to be using Covid-19 as a cover for human rights violations, further restricting fundamental freedoms and civic space, and undermining the rule of law,†said Bachelet, a former president of Chile.
Footage from India, South Africa and the Philippines of authorities beating, kicking and keeping people in dog cages have emerged since countries started to the restrict travel in March.