Sentence examples for abusive laws from inspiring English sources

"The police use outdated and abusive laws to violate basic rights such as freedom of expression and assembly... .. according to the Human Rights Watch 2015 World Report.

"It's shameful that instead of protecting citizens against abusive laws that criminalise their right to speak out, Iran's judiciary is actively endorsing the state's unlawful targeting of peaceful activists".

Greater, not lesser, efforts by the international community are needed to move Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to implement the Supreme Court decision, to arrest perpetrators of violence and to see abusive laws reformed or repealed...The international community must not be silent or Pakistan's religious diversity will be forever lost.Meanwhile the "perpetrators of violence" have not been idle.

Abusive laws and practices have been written into the Constitution itself.

Human Rights Watch have accused the police of "outdated and abusive" law to control freedom of expression.

The UK has to keep company with all sorts of governments, many overseeing disreputable justice systems, draconian laws, abusive police forces and largely unaccountable armed forces.

Despite gains in human rights from the days of dictatorship, most Latin Americans, it says, still cannot expect equal treatment before the law because of abusive police practices, politicized judiciaries and widespread corruption.

The phrase has become a rallying cry for those protesting abusive police tactics and how law enforcement treats black people.

The "scandalous and abusive" TDT law was, it thundered, aimed at "satisfying the interests of a group of friends".

It's telling that the policy change on traffic offenses came just two days after the oral argument in the Supreme Court on Arizona's abusive immigration law.

The result has been a generation of girls married too young, their routes out of poverty through education and work blocked by overbearing and abusive in-laws.