Law, policing and justice

The anti-democratic tendencies of many governments are reflected in restrictions on the right to protest or strike, creeping surveillance, and the rollback of civil liberties.

In our section on law, policing and justice we cover how citizens are pushing back, from campaigns against police corruption to movements for migrants’ rights, prison abolition and decriminalisation of sex work and more.

The anti-democratic tendencies of many governments are reflected in restrictions on the right to protest or strike, creeping surveillance, and the rollback of civil liberties.

The war on the Uyghurs

Moazzam Begg joins the dots between his own experience of the ‘war on terror’ and the repression of the Uyghur people at the hands of the Chinese state

17 February 2022
Israeli apartheid: an international consensus

Director of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign Ben Jamal explains the impact of Amnesty International naming Israel’s apartheid crimes

10 February 2022
What remains to be said about Bloody Sunday?

Fifty years on from the murder of innocent demonstrators by British troops, fighting for the living is the best way to remember the dead, says Pádraig Ó Meiscill

30 January 2022
GM ‘designer babies’: breakthrough or nightmare?

Only a global ban on human genetic engineering can prevent a new era of eugenics from emerging, writes David King

6 December 2021
One-party rule in Singapore?

The People’s Action Party has won every election since 1959 – but it hasn’t always been a fair fight, writes Kirsten Han

28 September 2021
War Inna Babylon – review

Tara Okeke explores an important exhibition that offers a compelling history of Black life in Britain through the lens of people, place and struggle

10 September 2021
Nigeria’s endless quest for democracy

For Nigeria’s switch to civilian rule to be truly democratic, it must ensure that sovereignty resides with its people, writes Synda Obaji

1 September 2021