By Black Star News
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A contingent of international civil society organizations have placed the United States on a watchlist of nations where there is serious worry regarding the health of their civil societies.
Other countries on the list include: Kenya, El Salvador, Indonesia, Serbia, and Turkey.
Wednesday, the non-profit organization Civicus, put America on this watchlist after what they called a nationwide scourge of “sustained attacks on civic freedoms.”
Civicus identified three major issues, for placing America on the watchlist, the use of the military to attack protesters; the increasing targeting of journalists; and the combative assaults on anti-war protesters demonstrating against the genocide in Gaza.
Civicus’s secretary general, Mandeep Tiwana, in a statement said, “The United States appears to be sliding deeper into the quicksands of authoritarianism. Peaceful protests are confronted with military force, critics are treated as criminals, journalists are targeted, and support for civil society and international cooperation have been cut back. Six months into Donald Trump’s second term, a bizarre assault on fundamental freedoms and constitutional safeguards has become the new normal.”
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