France: Thousands of protesters wrongly punished under draconian laws in pre and post COVID-19 crackdown
(WorldNews France)

Thousands of peaceful protesters have been swept up in France`s draconian crackdown on demonstrations, which has seen the authorities misuse the law to fine, arbitrarily arrest and prosecute people who have committed no violence, a report from Amnesty International has found. Peaceful protests have been banned under draconian COVID-19 powers and hundreds of protesters fine Marco Perolini, Amnesty International Arrested for protest: Weaponizing the law to crackdown on peaceful protesters in France documents how a blanket ban on protests following the COVID-19 -lockdown, was disproportionate and resulted in hundreds of unjustified fines. It also finds that long before the pandemic, first...