Once again, an international report has highlighted the decline in human rights in Malaysia and it doesn't stop short of claiming that the Perikatan Nasional government has used the Covid-19 pandemic to impinge on freedoms.

New Zealand-based Human Rights Measurement Initiative (HRMI) published the 'Human Rights during the Pandemic' report a few weeks ago, reviewing the state of human rights in 39 countries by analysing government responses to Covid-19 in 2020...