At least 19 U.S. states have introduced bills that attack the right to protest since Donald Trump’s election as president, an “alarming and undemocratic” trend, U.N. human rights investigators said this week.

Maina Kiai and David Kaye, independent U.N. experts on freedom of peaceful assembly and expression respectively, are calling on lawmakers in the United States to stop the “alarming” trend of “undemocratic” anti-protest bills designed to criminalize or impede the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and expression.

“The trend also threatens to jeopardize one of the United States’ constitutional pillars: free speech,” they said in a statement, calling for action to reverse such legislation.

“From the Black Lives Matter movement, to the environmental and Native American movements in opposition to the Dakota Access oil pipeline, and the Women’s Marches, individuals and organizations across society have mobilized in peaceful protests, as it is their right under international human rights law and US law,” Kiai and Kaye said.

• The Arizona State Senate in February to allow police to arrest anyone involved in a protest and seize their assets, treating demonstrators like organized criminals.
• Portland, Oregon activists organizing against police killings of Black men, white nationalist politicians, and the countless systems of racism throughout our local, state, and federal governments by Department of Homeland Security.
• In January, North Dakota Republicans proposed legislation if they are blocking roadways. (The legislation failed, for now.)
• Missouri lawmakers want to to wear a robe, mask or disguise (remarkably, a hoodie would count) to a protest.
• In Minnesota, following the police shooting death of Philando Castile, protests caused part of a highway to shut down. Then, at the beginning of the state legislative session, Minnesota legislators drafted bills that with heavy fines and prison time and would make protesters liable for the policing costs of an entire protest if they individually were convicted of unlawful assembly or public nuisance.
• Republicans in Washington state have a plan to reclassify as a felony civil disobedience protests that are deemed “economic terrorism.”
• Lawmakers in North Carolina want to make it a crime to lawmakers.
• In Indiana, conservatives want to to remove activists from a roadway.
• Colorado lawmakers are considering a in penalties for environmental protesters. Activists who tamper with oil or gas equipment could be, under the measure, face felony charges and be with up to 18 months behind bars and a fine of up to $100,000.
• A before the Virginia state legislature would dramatically increase punishment for people who “unlawfully” assemble after “having been lawfully warned to disperse.” Those who do so could face a year in jail and a $2,500 fine.

The experts took particular issue with the characterization in some bills of protests being “unlawful” or “violent”.