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Unfortunately, the UK was far from the only HRC candidate with on-going press freedom violations on the ground – and was by no means the worst offender.
On 28 October, the United Kingdom was re-elected as a member of the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC), alongside 13 other countries. Although the UK’s bid was almost certain to be successful – given there were only two candidates for the two seats from the ‘Western European and other States’ category, the other being the United States – the election took place in the midst of a worrying trend of moves by the UK authorities against press freedom at home.
