Every fine issued under the UK government’s COVID-19 lockdown rules must be reviewed, said a cross-party committee of British lawmakers who called the system “muddled, discriminatory, and unfair.” In a report published on Tuesday, the Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR), which is composed of both MPs and peers, set out “significant concerns” over the so-called fixed penalty notices (FPNs). Since the first CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus lockdown began in March 2020, more than 85,000 fixed penalty notices have been issued to people said to have broken COVID-19 restrictions. The fines, which allow people to pay a penalty instead of facing prosecution and a potential criminal record, range from £200 ($278) for the failure to wear a face covering to £10,000 ($13,905) for organising ‘illegal’ gatherings. The committee found that “a significant number of FPNs are incorrectly issued.” According to a Crown Prosecution Service review of prosecutions brought …
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