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With what seems like a recent wave of crackdowns on protests and record-long sentences being imposed on peaceful activists, would you say that sentences are now harsher than they’ve ever been?
Yeah, in any of our living memories, that is definitely true. [There is a] reversal from supposedly [Britain] being a champion of human rights internationally, to now being, according to research, the global leader in the repression of peaceful people. It’s a stunning turnaround. And the scary thing is the lack of attention on it.
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