Amnesty International slams Europe (!), while French PM predicts a state of emergency for a generation

Submitted by PezDispenser (Israel), Jan 17, 2017 at 16:20

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4908760,00.html

"Amnesty International on Tuesday said European counterterrorism measures in the past two years are rapidly -and potentially permanently - eroding basic human rights throughout the continent."

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"For French Prime Minister Manuel Valls, who is now running for the presidency, that's just fine.

"Let's be clear: this terrorist threat will last a generation. Today we have to live with a kind of permanent state of emergency," he told Le Parisien newspaper last week."

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