Amnesty criticizes Netanyahu, Putin, Trump as ‘Predators’ amid human rights decline

Amnesty criticizes Netanyahu, Putin, Trump as ‘Predators’ amid human rights decline
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Israel, Russia and the United States are leading the devastation of global human rights, Amnesty International has said, describing the three countries’ leaders as “voracious predators” intent upon economic and political domination.

In a news conference on Monday in London, Agnes Callamard, the head of the global rights group, said that most governments tend to appease the “predators” rather than confront them.

Their conduct is “emboldening all of those that are tempted by similar behaviours,” said Callamard. “It is allowing for the multiplication of copycats around the world, and therefore what we are confronting now is much more aggressive and ferocious than what we had to confront three or four years ago.”

Amnesty’s review of the state of the world’s human rights makes for grim reading, documenting attacks on fundamental civil liberties in most nations.

“Authoritarian practices have intensified worldwide”, the report reads, before running through abuses alleged in countries from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe in 400 pages.

Israel’s genocide in Gaza, Russia’s “crimes against humanity” in Ukraine, and the US-Israeli war on Iran were noted as examples of conflict in which international laws have been ignored.