Amnesty International called the mass arrests “deeply concerning”.
“The protesters in Parliament Square were not inciting violence and it is entirely disproportionate to the point of absurdity to be treating them as terrorists,” said Sacha Deshmukh, the organisation’s chief executive.
“We have long criticised UK terrorism law for being excessively broad and vaguely worded and a threat to freedom of expression. These arrests demonstrate that our concerns were justified.”
Westerners whenever their countries do fascist shit: “this is something foreigners would do!”
I’m from Russia just for context. The playbooks are exactly the same down to the justifications (“protect the children” for destroying online privacy and anonymity, “terrorism” for arresting any unfavorable protesters).
Yeah, and Russia didn’t invent that play book; the West has been using it since long before the Russian Federation existed.
Sure, just highlighting the similarities here.