Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, UN:

"...emergency declarations based on the Covid-19 outbreak should not be used as a basis to target particular groups, minorities, or individuals. It should not function as a cover for repressive action under the guise of protecting health nor should it be used to silence the work of human rights defenders.

“Restrictions taken to respond to the virus must be motivated by legitimate public health goals and should not be used simply to quash dissent.”

https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=25722

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For Latin Americans, the "state of siege" is old news. For those in the global North who are becoming much more familiar with states of emergency, they might need to do a crash course on the full range of options and techniques long available to repressive states.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070959/

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