Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job
Sonya Sceats is Chief Executive of Freedom from Torture. She is a qualified Australian lawyer and has worked previously worked for Amnesty International and the British Institute of Human Rights. Sonya is also an Associate Fellow in International Law at Chatham House.
For now, the rule of law is providing hope to people claiming asylum in the UK. But the government has other ideas.
The Trump and Johnson administrations’ attacks on the judiciary and lawmakers are part of a broader rise of...