joining us you nice to be here what you say is the overall message in this report as my director ken roth says where there's been people standing up to a populist political leaders then there's been some progress on human rights or at least efforts to hold back severe criticism if you take the elections in france in two thousand and seventeen for instance the victory of president raul shows that people were willing to turn away from a populist message an embrace somebody who was standing off with human rights a small example in hungary for instance the government was trying to shut down an important university the central european university in budapest that didn't happen because people went out and protested against it even in the u.s. there was resistance to some of president trump's measures on migration on health on women's rights and so on so there was some some some progress despite a whole series of serious setbacks on human rights in two thousand and seventeen but even still i mean these populist efforts they still exist don't they and i just want to quote something from your repo

your report other any areas they think progress has been made in human rights well as my director ken roth says where there's been principled politicians and popular protest against or thora tarion or populist leaders there's been progress let's take poland for instance it was important that the european commission last year took a stand against the very negative legal reforms in poland even donald trump i mean there's been people in standing up against health reform on these issues about whether muslims can enter the country those things have been blocked so it's been important steps have been taken the central european university in budapest is still open because of protests in the streets in budapest so there has been some positive developments and this talk about keenan it does see the sec back in its human rights record why because the government has taken a forward an authoritarian approach ever since the failed coup in mid two thousand and sixteen hundreds of journalists thousands of civil servants remain in prison in turkey the government has had a a no tolerance policy towards hum

saying sisi is running against himself echoing a very popular hash tag we're seeing at the moment and ken roth from human rights watch says when you're an autocratic like sisi the best election is when you have pressured all of your major opponents not to run and the women's rights activists is mona and she said this is a reminder of the suffocating and possibility of politics in egypt the military backed regime determines who can or who can't challenge it and as i said when people in egypt started rising up against hosni mubarak and twenty eleven social media fan those flames and suddenly dissenting voices were heard and listened to now this video is being shared a lot it's of the first massive protests that took place in ramsey's square in cairo people are tweeting this down only to reflect on the revolution but also in protest against cc's rule now indeed social media uses are drawing strong parallels between what happened in twenty eleven and events that we're seeing today are khalifa says that the world listened in or to our chants and this was the chants the people want the fall of the r

operation illegal these arrests are part of a larger crackdown in turkey under operation olive branch ken roth from human rights watch says that it's not terribly up again to post online messages criticizing the operation yet more than three hundred people have been detained in turkey over the past twelve days for posts critical of the operation just on social media so it's a sensitive time and many turks support the operation but do you support the actions of the authorities here tweet us your thoughts using the hash tag news great or you can message me directly i'm at andrew thank you very much for that this is a news great on al-jazeera if you're watching us on facebook coming up next food on the indian ocean island of zanzibar where the spice trade has defined the keys for hundreds of years and stayed ahead on the grid for the first time in one hundred thousand. super more and blood more well. the world to the human fascination with battles to stay with us. welcome back as we look at weather conditions across the levant and western parts of asia it's all looking fairly quite here recovery