{"id":264993,"date":"2017-06-29T09:06:11","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T13:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=264993"},"modified":"2020-11-18T13:52:10","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T18:52:10","slug":"france-using-state-of-emergency-against-peaceful-protests-amnesty-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/cs\/france-using-state-of-emergency-against-peaceful-protests-amnesty-says\/","title":{"rendered":"France using state of emergency against peaceful protests, Amnesty says"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><strong><span style=\"color: #008080;\">RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5><strong><span style=\"color: #008080;\">After the USA and UK, France is becoming also a new fascist police state.<\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>French officials have used the state of emergency imposed after the Paris attacks of 2015 to curb peaceful demonstrations, a rights group says.<\/p>\n<p>Amnesty International said hundreds of decrees were issued under the emergency laws, banning public assemblies or individuals from protests.<\/p>\n<p>France&#8217;s interior ministry has not yet responded to a BBC request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The state of emergency allows searches without a warrant and people to be placed under house arrest.<\/p>\n<p>It is set to expire on 15 July but President Emmanuel Macron has said he will ask parliament to extend it for the sixth time until November.<\/p>\n<p>The measure was introduced after the attacks of 13 November 2015, when militants from so-called Islamic State (IS) killed 130 people in gun and bomb attacks around the capital.<\/p>\n<p>According to Amnesty&#8217;s report, between November 2015 and 5 May 2017 there were 155 decrees issued under the emergency powers prohibiting public assemblies.<\/p>\n<p>There were also 639 measures aimed at preventing individuals from taking part in public assemblies, the majority of them related to protests against proposed labour law reforms, it added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Emergency laws intended to protect the French people from the threat of terrorism are instead being used to restrict their rights to protest peacefully,&#8221; Amnesty&#8217;s researcher Marco Perolini said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Under the cover of the state of emergency, rights to protest have been stripped away with hundreds of activists, environmentalists, and labour rights campaigners unjustifiably banned from participating in protests.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The group also said that security forces used &#8220;unnecessary or excessive force&#8221; against peaceful protesters &#8220;who did not appear to threaten public order&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-40105183\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-40105183<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: After the USA and UK, France is becoming also a new fascist police state. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":284527,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}