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But the economic crisis that drove the political instability is still very much continuing with millions of people struggling to buy food or fuel. Well thats it for myself and the team here in london. Those that we are headlines this hour. Maybe more news from doha later on. Now its time for the big picture is only foremans to go to the world cup on the clock is ticking as teams and friends prepare for cats or 2022 will have updates from different regions across the globe. Fisma, the focus is on africa and synagogue mounts a challenge for the tropi, who, winning the help of nations will become a rude gonna to nicea over rural curb. To steal the show. Join us for the world. Cook countdown on al jazeera. Ah, freedom is the key ideal in most countries around the world. And in france, its a quote, tenets of our identity. Previously, on the big picture, we looked at the impact that the rise of the far right is having on french society. I dont think we need this last because of jack boots really to try fresh isnt coming into the mainstream of politics. Im mary, impossible. And in this episode, well examine how Civil Liberties the rights that protects people against state action, or increasingly on the threat, a from the rights of processed to the protection against Police Violence freedom. The sections of the french population is being eroded by the very state meant to protect them. Ah, ah, ah, present my crew has hesitated to use the term Police Violence preferring to refer to the violence of some offices. Is there a problem of Systemic Police Brutality here . In france, what rescinding the recent years is an erosion of for different Civil Liberties targeting, originally, certain groups are expending to the whole population. I think free speech is a huge word that we use now to say everything and anything and nothing of the same time. Because if you speak, the things are authorized in this country you of the road, the frisbee tried the very soon country that poses as a torchbearer for a fundamental freedoms. Come up, pick one criticism that there is the sum of hobby in france and consider, is it an incitement hatred against fritz in summer brightness, one in greeny people have been speaking out about the loss of their freedoms as well as Police Brutality. For decades. For more recently, these issues have come to more attention through the crack down on the yellow, vast movements, as well as student protests. And images of military scholar, weaponry being used on civilian populations, have shocked the nation. At the same time, michael government has brought in new legislation which father, sky falls, dissenting voices for public, which prides itself on its liberty. And a tradition of protest, france is eroding some of its most prized freedoms. Getting the lies some 20 kilometers outside the fence of paris and is ranked the poorest town in france. I meet with jiggy jahan a filmmaker born in grainy gees films, focus on the lives and struggles of People Living in the suburbs. He shows me around a place he calls his inspiration, mobile doesnt almost implement that now. The law is offered to legally sprinkle to power by a normal poly choi key bumper. Yeah, they did a local new to tell me if you see your, to your, the new all these are these on jo, this, you know, to the blows he goes finished with called home or no. Well, are you good to go to . Or ged takes me to the local community center, a place he chose to premier his latest film. It tells us to as a group of young people and a faithful encounter with the police. In the monday 23, he claims within 142017. So any of you enough for the ceremony connecting those p i. So for fishing and i was it was it for her of hymns who lives in laws will help oscar. 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On a few hours said to accommodate some, but she is said to call bessie to the blogosphere buffer. Kathy of italy, lucy, lutheran, new suffolk county, got or can cause fear. They wanted to look at the banner for use, the marty, the only bond. Mix it up to the noise are talking. Yeah, because your total profit of half even your fill of the, the lady back the legality. That if i can get to see she who of it only goes into city model was more, more traditional norm is in more is rebellion. Certain problem, a chicken about home curriculum on the chrissy or in fun glosser devora neese. Youre saying were, we dont see them fall, do the problem and she is on the coffee lattice was her boss. You could you see more than his follows or other latino also she too much live on abuse on due to non po for sa, sasha isnt convinced recently tucker on corporate solutions, flu levels. Yorba no problem. 2 of them all a year before the pandemic, the head of france is Human Rights Watch dog. Describe a steady erosion of Civil Liberties in france. In 2021, the European Committee for the prevention of torture, raised concerns over violence and abuse, suffered in police custody. And in the same year, a coalition of organizations filed a class action lawsuit, arguing that the government had failed to take measures to prevent racial profiling, and systemic Racial Discrimination by the police. How would you describe the current states of Civil Liberties in france to day . I mean from what youve mentioned, im not going to say everything is new. For example, you talked about her Police Brutality custody. Is that something that exists for a really long time or similarly with racial profiling that long term issue and it hasnt started in the recent years. However, Amnesty International france has been working more and more on its own country on friends, or because indeed what rescinding the recent years is an erosion of different Civil Liberties targeting originally certain groups that extending to the whole population and that ugly. We see that during protest, her and rings a yell of his protest, where you had a very violent, a response from the police have of 3 people who were mutilated just because they were taking part in protests and thousands of injuries. It wasnt new practices, its practices that existed before and expanded broader to the population in france and in the public debate. Human rights fundamental freedom, Civil Liberties have shifted from a space of objectivism to space of belief. People in friends believe that because they are the country of human rights, then these human rights are guaranteed for ever because we are the country that prides itself on being a torchbearer of free speech. We think that we are protected from infringing on the search free speech, and this is why you are as to your to situation on the ground gets worse. What was done to muslim minorities is now apply to any dissenting movement, criticizing the government. And this is why the situation is so bad with an international audience. Not really understanding what is going on in france, friends becoming a 2nd tier, a country in terms of human rights and everybody abroad. And taking it for granted that these country, that the view as a romantic country is protected from this type of issue. This is the worst. The 1st time i went to a protest, it was maybe 4 or 5 years ago. It was a protest against Climate Change and does actually in super nice afternoon, fighting for something important, but we had a nice time nowadays when i go to a protest or for example as protest was against the violence against women. Its not the same atmosphere anymore. I go there and i know something might go wrong. I go there and im ready. Ready for whatevers coming, whatever it comes from the police because there are as many protested as poets. Men around us. Am ready to have people insult me because i am a muslim women and people think muslim. Women cannot be feminists. I know people who dont go to protest because theyre scared and i condemned them because some people go and they dare it. They are being harmed. The maybe some are dead then. So we go and we know we have a lot of things to lose when we used to go for things to, to gain on the protests. And now people think twice before going, i want to talk to you about the and organizations on the ground who are defending Civil Liberties and how they are treated. You used to be at the director of angio that was shut down the collective against his im a phobia in france and as is something that you think of as a wider pattern, the french government is now all currently taking ownership of their political agenda, which is basically, to seek and destroy any form of political criticism of systemic racism when you block people based on what they were, what system of belief they have. What color of, what is the color of this kid . Well, thats basic discrimination. Everybody around the world seems to understand this except friends. So now any organization that will uphold a Progressive Agenda will be deemed an enemy of the republic and labeled as searched by the government. If you are an organization supporting victims of discrimination, enemy of the repub, if youre a Muslim Women Organization trying to promote inclusion, earth will work, education, civic participation enemy of the republic. If youre in academia, working on the see the issues. Ready lemme leftist, if you are Human Rights WatchAmnesty International. You are an accomplice as to enemies of the republic or in your case, or in our case human rights organization. Like the one i used to work with up until 2017, which eventually has been shut down in 2024, claiming that there is islam of javion, france, which was deemed by the state council as an incitement to hatred against france for the very same country that poses as a torchbearer for a fundamental freedoms. And freedom of speech cannot thick one criticism that there is the sum of phobia in france and consider, is it an incitement hatred against france this before itself at me . And i know that youve written books and that talk about Civil Liberties at that. Try and educate people about Civil Liberties. Im wondering is that in some way a response to the current climate. And so what is that like the most urgent areas that youve wanted to address . I think for me, because that comes from a personal perspective. What made me wrote this book was a, some of phobia is im a phobia that i was living in my everyday life is some of the other. My sisters are living for physical aggressions, insults in the streets. At some point i was like, i cant do this anymore, so i have to write this down. But where i was writing or writing it, i thought we are as french as anybody in this country and we dont have to prove ourselves. We dont have to show people we deserve to be there. We are here and we are staying. So thats why i wanted to show in this book. I also seeing that in this atmosphere is a, there is a huge responsibility of the authorities. And because you had the dignities, they sion from very, very high level of her political, political personalities. There is a huge responsibility in the way that we address the issue of the terrorist attacks. Because of course, the authority has to take measures. But lot of these measures with based on surveillance and the way that the legislation or the implementation of the registration was framed would target any muslim. And that doesnt come from people in the run that comes from a state and kind of legitimate, the kind of tie reaction you can meet. And i think its extremely important. And because the state as a responsibility to implement freedom of allegiance and to protect people from that kind of aggression and in france, they high level politicians that contribute to the ssl style environment. And as far as its extremely dangerous, because its also where we lose some of the freedoms including freedom of region, freedom of expression, freedom to go free to public spaces. And i completely understand how painful it continues to not be able to go to families protesters because were the phantom might try and say that these restrictions should be justified. You know, at least some of them by, you know, clearly there is a complex security situation facing dance. You know, can we say that some of these measures are justified, but may be gone a little too far in exceptional cases . Or do you see things this differently securities at his best when its seamless, invisible, specifically targeted and guided by indication that there is a natural danger and that there are actual criminal activities going on. But when you spread Financial Resources targeting any person who looks mostly who goes to the mosque, who has any, will even minor basic political dissent. Then not only are you harming their own fundamental freedom. And as you rightly pointed, everybodys fundamental freedom. But youre failing on the security front. I want to talk about a Police Brutality in 2020. We thought that the shocking pictures of music producer missions, declare being beaten by police in his own music studio that had come. Not that long after the death of settling trivia in a police choke hold. Her prison mcclure has hesitated to use the term Police Violence preferring to you to refer to the violence of some officer and the v. A. U. Confident using the term Police Violence and is there a problem of Systemic Police Brutality here in france . I am comfortable in using the term Police Violence even though it would say illegal use of. Fourthly, the police, as has the jurys that i think is the same as when you talk of a domestic violence. It doesnt mean that every husband is going to get his wife is just that there is a systemic issue. And when it comes to police and friends, of course, there is an individual responsibility of the one person who has a hearing about and that he, the person, a hiver. It happens so often or is, or in a certain nurse suburbs or during protest that we have to question the whole system. Or we have to question what kind of mission are given to the police . What kind of Training Like an us and he was gonna weapons or because it had been so us and that it is not only the responsibility of individuals, or we also have to question the hierarchy. And it, sir, for us, its a massive problem that they are. So it is or not because again, we are in the situation of denial where issue dont recognize the problem. You dont go for solution. And that we cant even have a constructive dialogue with the authorities because they dont want to see that it is a systematic issue. And that now its time for long term reforms. Deep reforms in the policing system, the Justice System is meant to protect peoples basic freedoms. Of course, but there have been concerns about the Police Watchdog happen there, which is a kind of self monitoring watchdog. How effective in your experience is the judicial system in providing the means for accountability for victims of Police Violence . Yes, the organization in charge aflac are investigating Police Violence. We call it the washing machine because every time there is a complaint there, its comes clean, the Police Officer comes clean. A Police Officers are supposed to control and repress other Police Officers. And eventually in the reality they found that theyve done nothing wrong. And of course the cameras were not there to prove it. And it goes away. And it who i, france has been town time and again, guilty of discriminating and guilty of condoning this Police Targeting of minorities and have in your world, do you find that this in community is validated through the hierarchies . I mean, how easy it is for an organization like amnesty to monitor whats actually going on in terms of how the Police Accounts itself. I mean sources, its very difficult because we like the data and there is no statistics about her about injuries or this did to police to police operation, the identity and the organization. And when he turned the police, which is met in a group of Police Officers, that the research that has been very limited and its been only 2 years starting to, theyre starting to do so. And also we dont have any data about the complaints and the legal follow up and the sanctions at or taken care renewal or administrative user doesnt judges. They work on a daily basis with the police and that very normal. I mean, is the crime is committed who is going to write the report is a Police Officer is going to bring it to the judge. But what happens when the police is accused and how does a judge work with that kind of situation . Because theyre, its their daily daily collaborators that Work Together or their solutions and our solutions that are implemented in other countries that we suggest to suggest about a house, if the site can be involved in controlling the police. How are the judges that are here that are falling . The cases could be from another district, for example. But since france doesnt recognize the problem, nothing is a, nothing has been reformed. It. We often hear about the importance of free speech as a republican value and, but weve also seen, you know, wrappers that branded as islamists and pressure not to perform. Weve seen attempts to been pro palestinian processed people consent and convicted, or of contempt for banning and effigy of our president. My clue, police of says detaining 10 year olds to question them on their views on shiny, have do cartoons. I think. Is there a disconnect in your view between the dns, national, maybe perception of france when it comes to free speech and your experience of that on the ground . I think 3 speech is a huge word that we use now to say everything and anything and nothing at the same time. Because if you speak the things that are authorized in this country you are there, the free speech, right . If me, for example, i wanna talk about some, a phobia or a state is im a phobia, no free speech for me. So it depends on what you have to say. So i dont think that so, right, which is for everybody today and in the text, the legal text, of course, it is a super important rights we have in france and thank god we have this right in our constitution. But in practically, this is not true that every one has the right to speak. And for example, in my small level, but i a speaker by some, a phobia on the social networks on Instagram Facebook to just select from a book to educate people, to way raise awareness and have been censored by instagram a few times because i talk to by some of phobia, and when you come to my facebook page, you have a warning message saying that i published dangerous content and i should be careful if you click on on my name. And im just unlike nobody else is there another i and i were one book and im just me a muslim women in this country. If youre in the position of power and you assume freedom of speech, what it means basically is you have to free them to insult to the beast, individual or communities. And they have the right and the freedom to just accept it. Take it and shut up. Because the history, the written history in france has shown that he took a on national tv to the base women. And its will be taken as sense of humor. But if these women get angry or with pomp on the set, then there are over reacting. He took a, the imitate african accent, asian accents, or up or middle eastern accents. But if these minorities claim that this is a form of humiliation and somehow a form of cultural racism, then they dont have a sense of humor. Its ok to publish a cartoons or 1st pagers claiming that refugees are reapers, and the are a black and most women are just here for, for the public helps and, and subsidies. But if these people respond back than they are provoking and they are the enemies of the republic, of course its not easy. Of course, it is hard. And i can say just for myself that i dont have a clue of what you guys are doing through on a daily basis. As women would whom women, black women are a woman, im just a moment, a volunteer in one organization. But this is our story, and this is how we affect change. I would say their muslim women, we have also allied feminist allies, other organizations that we didnt have as allies a year ago. So this is good, this is good news. And the activist landscape is changing in france. I think because this minor groups, this Community Groups go together as a bigger group. And this is really good news. But at the end, the government still there, the president is still there and the repression is still there. So i would say its hard that were so were still there and i think we will be there all the time that we are being discriminated. Erosion and Civil Liberties always begins with the my marginalized, but it never ends there. There is no loss of freedom which doesnt affect each and every one of us. Please return. He is possibly the clearest example of this for there are other less obvious examples. The closure of local organizations, increasing surveillance of protestors. Freedom a hard one. The often that disappearance is a very gradual process. And before you know it, the very ideals you believe the state is premised on, vanish. Im like a vase in the south of india to find out how a tiny bass in this cave brought an extensive Mining Operation to a scan. Corona virus helped wept across the world with devastating effect, and it is widely believed to be connected to the legal wildlife trade. Here in vietnam, we visit a rescue center for some of the worlds most threatened to animals and joined the call for an end to the global while period. 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