UK’s draft refugee and police laws are ‘human rights vandalism’, says Amnesty

Rights group's annual report accuses Britain of setting worrying reverse course' in bills on refugees, policing, protest and welfare

The government's attack on fundamental rights and protections enshrined in UK law is an act of human rights vandalism" that would curtail the ability of people to hold the state to account, Amnesty International has claimed.

In its annual report on the state of human rights across the world, Amnesty strongly criticised the British government for its attempts to dismantle the Human Rights Act and a battery of new draconian" legislation on refugees and policing.