Amnesty slams ‘hateful’ Trump
US president, European leaders’ response to refugee crisis slammed
The "politics of demonisation" provided fertile ground for human rights abuses in 2017, exemplified by the response of Europe and Donald Trump’s US to the refugee crisis, rights group Amnesty International said on Thursday. In its annual report, the British-based group took aim at the US president’s "transparently hateful" executive order banning entry to citizens of several Muslim-majority countries. "Throughout 2017, millions across the world experienced the bitter fruits of a rising politics of demonisation," said the report, which was launched for the first time in the US. It accused leaders of wealthy countries of approaching the refugee crisis "with a blend of evasion and outright callousness". "Most European leaders have been unwilling to grapple with the big challenge of regulating migration safely and legally, and have decided that practically nothing is off limits in their efforts to keep refugees away from the continent’s shores." Amnesty International secretary-general S...
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