"Included in the listed "12 alarm bells" that are "cracking the pillars of a free society" is the administration's targeting freedom of press and access to information, targeting freedom of expression and assembly, the scapegoating of populations and rolling back non-discrimination policies, and attacking refugee and migrant rights. The report claims that such authoritarian tactics are mutually reinforcing and lead, for example, to students being arrested for protesting and communities being terrorised by ICE agent, while press intimidation makes it harder to expose human rights violations and abuses."
"A year into Trump's second term and it's never been clearer: this is a pivotal point in world history, and Sir Keir Starmer must use every tool at his disposal to confront Donald Trump's seemingly out of control anti-rights agenda. The Trump administration's systematic dismantling of international human rights norms - from threatening to take over Greenland to the US's withdrawal from the Human Rights Council, the WHO, and the Paris Agreement - is a terrifying attack on international justice. Trump and his Government must be held to account."
Amnesty International warns of a recognisable pattern of authoritarian practices and erosion of human rights in the United States. Twelve interconnected areas are identified where the administration is attacking core freedoms, including press freedom and access to information, freedom of expression and assembly, non-discrimination policies, and refugee and migrant rights. Those tactics are described as mutually reinforcing and producing concrete harms such as students being arrested for protesting and communities terrorised by ICE agents, while press intimidation obstructs exposure of abuses. Amnesty's interim UK chief executive called on global leaders and Sir Keir Starmer to confront the administration's anti-rights agenda and hold the government to account.
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