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Human rights in the time of Covid: ‘a pandemic of abuses’, says UN head

Exclusive: The crisis has rolled back years of progress and been used as a pretext to crackdown on freedoms, says António Guterres

The world is facing a “pandemic of human rights abuses”, the UN secretary general António Guterres has said.

Authoritarian regimes had imposed drastic curbs on rights and freedoms and had used the virus as a pretext to restrict free speech and stifle dissent.

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