Danish Civil Liberties Wilt Under Climate Change
The Danish Government is rushing new laws through parliament to extend police powers and impose tougher penalties for civil disobedience. Brian Mikkelsen, the Justice Minister, has stated that anybody found to be “inhibiting police work” will be jailed for 40 days rather than fined. The new laws would also allow police the power to detain people for 12 hours even when no crime had been committed, and raise fines for failing to disperse from a demonstration to more than £350.
“I fear it’s a slippery slope,” the historian Jes Fabricius Møller told The Times. “We don’t have a strong awareness of citizens’ rights in this country.”
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