From deportation without trial and stripping away citizenships to stop and search and a begging ban: Sweden’s new government programme is full of legally questionable, illiberal measures. John Stauffer, Legal Director at Civil Rights Defenders, tells The Local how his group plans to put up a fight.
For Stauffer, who has fought against rights infringements both in Sweden and further afield, there is no question that the political programme outlined in the four-party Tidö Agreement takes Sweden in an illiberal direction.
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