BRITAIN is performing worse than average on empowerment rights as it enters a “bleak new era,” a global interactive map exposing “blistering attacks” on peaceful protests worldwide revealed today.

Amnesty International launched its digital map showing the rise in the repression of protests by governments internationally as it warned that authorities are increasingly resorting to unlawful use of force and repressive legislation.

It highlighted Britain’s “draconian move to clampdown on protests.”