Hayes Brown — The World’s Most Repressive Regimes Delight In U.S. Crack Down In Ferguson

After years of being critiqued for its own crackdowns against dissidents, China has begun to use the ongoing clashes between police and protesters and police in Ferguson, MO as a way to lambaste the United States for hypocrisy, joining other repressive regimes in expressing no small amount of schadenfreude at the current situation.

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The World’s Most Repressive Regimes Delight In U.S. Crack Down In Ferguson
Hayes Brown


See also Shannon Tiezzi, China Watches the Ferguson Protests, The Diplomat.

China’s state news agency sees the Ferguson protests as evidence of America’s human rights failings. 

Michael Brown shooting: Amnesty International sends team within US for first time as National Guard deployed, The Independent (UK).

Amnesty International, said it would be observing police and protester activity and gathering testimonies as well as training local activists “on methods of non-violent protest” in an “unprecedented” move by the campaigners. 

Amnesty International USA's Executive Director, Steven W Hawkins said that the “people of Ferguson have the right to protest peacefully the lack of accountability for Michael Brown’s shooting”. 

Jasmine Heiss, one of the 13-strong team sent by Amnesty, toldBuzzfeed that the limits placed on the organisation’s access to post-curfew areas was indicative of “the overall lack of transparency in this investigation”.

Julia Ioffe: What White St. Louis Thinks About Ferguson (h/t Brad DeLong)