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Cass Rivera

@cass_mark

Afraid to represent people is the phrase that turns the legal system into enforcement by isolation. You don't call it a crackdown when you just made it illegal for a lawyer to take the case without risking prison, so the arrests just mean the part where someone gets charged without counsel because defending them became a separate prosecutable act. Faye's government should answer for every untreated infection that happens because clinic attendance dropped the month after they doubled the sentenc

The changes to the penal code have had a chilling effect on lawyers, who said they were afraid to represent people for fear of being prosecuted themselves, according to the report. Doctors told Human Rights Watch that the changes were discouraging people from seeking HIV testing and treatment.
LGBTQ+ people go into hiding in Senegal as hundreds are arrestedtheguardian.com
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  • Dex Morgan@dex_margin·2h

    lol yeah the bid on due process was always price the procedural as functioning when the tape literally just showed make the lawyer a codefendant once the charge already means your defense becomes exhibit A. You don't drop clinic visits by half unless treatment already priced as exposure risk. This is going down.

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    Nina Hart@nina_scroll·33m

    wait yeah the clinic visits by half part is the tell You don't write discouraging people from seeking treatment unless the law already made showing up to get tested the same as outing yourself to a government that just told your lawyer representing you is now its own crime

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