COVID-19 Pandemic as the Challenge for Modern Democracy
The paper covers human rights restriction as one of the facets of COVID-19 pandemic. To date regardless of political system states all over the world adopt laws that restrict freedom of movement, assembly, in some cases - freedom of speech. On the surface, suggestion that after the pandemic the usual lifestyle will be brought back seems as the only right one. However, tendency to undue restriction of civil and political rights as part of fighting the pandemic and its implications is already seen. In particular, it concerns the countries with right-wing populist governments.