‘Switzerland is sending a dangerous signal to the world’
www.swissinfo.ch
With its new anti-terror legislation Switzerland could provide a model for authoritarian regimes, warns UN human rights expert Fionnuala Ní Aoláin.

This new anti-terror law allows the federal police to put under electronic surveillance any swiss citizen without any judicial oversight. It also authorize the Federal Police to place under house arrest people as young as 12 with little oversight. New definition of terrorism is also extremely vague; anybody that wants to influence political order through fear or terror may be considered a terrorist threat.

  • clockwise_bit
    1·
    4 years ago

    Damn, what’s wrong with the world.
    Next you’re gonna tell me we’re gonna see PEGI-like stamps regarding the age at which on can be arrested, on new laws. This is ridiculus.

    • ferretOP
      2·
      4 years ago

      It’s also blatantly unconstitutional. but they wont care as long as the Federal Court wont have ruled it as unlawful, which I hope it will do. There is also little hope regarding a nationwide referendum ; we managed to collect only 10k signatures. we have until early january to get to 50k.

      • clockwise_bit
        1·
        4 years ago

        I have the feeling covid is not going to help, as well, in collecting the necessary signatures, but I might be wrong, depending on how Switzerland does its chores.

        • ferretOP
          1·
          4 years ago

          well its still allowed to collect signatures, even during a worldwide pandemia. its just that events like the ones that happened in france and austria arent really helping.