NSW Premier’s office declines to respond after United Nations special rapporteur warns against “draconian laws”
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The NSW government’s controversial anti-protest laws are coming under international scrutiny following the violent arrest of former Greens candidate Hannah Thomas.
Mary Lawlor, the United Nations special rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, has told Deepcut she was “shocked by the reported injuries sustained by a peaceful protester in Sydney last week during the course of her arrest by New South Wales Police”.
“The increasing crackdown on peaceful protest, and the use of excessive force to disperse peaceful protest, is a very worrying trend that is spreading like wildfire through democracies, often fuelled by draconian laws restricting the right to freely and peacefully assemble,” Lawlor said.
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