Proposed Law in France Threatens Civic Space

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image French Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez during the weekly session of questions to the government at the National Senate. Paris, France. © 2019 Sipa via AP Images The French government is expected at any moment to unveil troubling draft legislation to address so-called entryism: the idea that certain groups seek to infiltrate state institutions to influence and promote an ideological agenda. If adopted, the bill would further erode the country’s already shrinking civic space.The entryism bill would aim to strengthen the 2021 Law Reinforcing Respect for the…

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