The U.S.-based International human rights Watch (Human Rights Watch,HRW) said in a statement Thursday that police in Victoria, Australia, had adopted & quot; abusive practices during the outbreak quot;, raising serious concerns about Australia's government commitment to uphold human rights.
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quot; during a pandemic, human rights should have been better preserved and strengthened than ignored. & quot;human rights Watch Australia Director Elaine Pearson (Elaine Pearson) said.
From 2 August, Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, began a six-week blockade, which included a curfew from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m., five kilometers (3.1 miles) of travel restrictions and a wide range of business closures, which have had a significant impact on Australian national economic.
According to human rights Watch, in several recent incidents, Vizhou police have acted disproportionately or disproportionately against persons suspected of violating the blockade.
human rights Watch, for example, said that on 2 September, a pregnant woman in Melbourne was arrested for publishing on her fb the contents of the anti-blockade protest campaign, and, despite her offer to delete her post, she was handcuffed by the police and taken to the police station in front of her child.
human rights Watch also gave an example of an aboriginal man who rode to work on a bicycle who was arrested, beaten and racially abused by the police on 3 September because he did not stop when he was asked to check his permit.
From August 4 to September 2, the state police issued a total of $2.9 million in fines for violating the ban ,10 percent of which were served to residents living in the state's three most vulnerable communities, the Times reported.
The human rights watch group is also concerned about a new australian bill on the new crown, which it says could expand the authority, of the police so that they can have something currently only available to health experts authority, such as pre- detain of those tested positive or suspected of violating the ban.
The group of retired judge and lawer wrote a letter to Virginia Governor Daniel Andrews (Daniel Andrews) calling the law & quot;. an unprecedented abuse
There were 26,973 Coronavirus cases in Australia as of 23 September, resulting in 859 people death, with 20.01 million infections in Victoria alone.
