U.S. Slams Worsening Human Rights Situation Across Europe

Major European nations come off terribly in the U.S. Department of State’s latest reports on human rights practices, which point to “serious restrictions” on free speech, inconsistent policing and antisemitic violence.

Naturally then, the leftist establishment press, such as Britain’s BBC, has effectively dismissed the annual document as “downscaled.” That’s much easier, after all, than admitting to our failures.

According to the reports, the human rights situation has “worsened” in Germany, France, and the UK over the past year. In each case, officials have been accused of overseeing restrictions on freedom of expression, including in Britain and France via the “enforcement of or threat of criminal or civil laws in order to limit expression.”

Censorship—as well as two-tier policing—under Keir Starmer’s government following last year’s Southport triple murder is given particular attention in the UK report, although its authors note that even beyond this event, “censorship of ordinary Britons was increasingly routine, often targeted at political speech.”

Germany, too, is scolded over police “routinely” raiding homes, confiscating electronic devices, interrogating suspects, and prosecuting individuals “for the exercise of freedom of speech, including online.”

These arguments echo U.S. Vice President JD Vance’s Munich speech back in February, in which he slammed European officials for restricting the free speech of their voters. And Donald Trump was equally critical during a visit to Scotland late last month.

Each country is also highlighted to have produced a notable number of “reports of crimes, violence, or threats of violence motivated by antisemitism.”

Trump’s administration said these have taken “some” credible steps “to identify and punish officials who committed human rights abuses” but singled out the UK for the fact such punishments were “inconsistent.”