ALLIANCE for Community Action (ACA) executive director Laura Miti says despite the UPND being better than PF in terms of respect for human rights, it is also using the law to persecute rivals. In an interview, Miti, who is also Human Rights Commission Commissioner, said the UPND administration still displays some affinity for the bad habits of before. She said this was seen, firstly, in the arrests under the now repealed defamation of the President law as well as the Public Order Act. “There is no question that UPND is much better than PF on the respect for human rights. There is a much-improved sense of personal safety and the civic space is incomparable. However, this administration still displays some...

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