The government continued to use existing laws to silence dissent and introduced legal amendments further restricting freedom of expression. Refugees and migrants were held in indefinite detention. Death sentences decreased after the death penalty was made discretionary but continued for drug-related offences. Allegations of torture and other ill-treatment persisted in immigration detention centres, along with reports of custodial deaths.
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