Americas: Authorities must protect people from COVID-19 instead of resorting to repressive measures

Authorities across the Americas must avoid resorting to repressive and overreaching measures that unduly restrict human rights in the name of “protecting” people from COVID-19, Amnesty International said today, after its Crisis Evidence Lab and regional experts verified almost 60 incidents in the region over the past seven weeks that point to governments using arbitrary, punitive and repressive tactics.