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Conservatives' plans to repeal the Human Rights Act and replace it with a so-called “British Bill of Rights” are legally illiterate, politically provocative and designed to put the UK on a collision course with the Court of Human Rights.
The Dutch Senate has rejected a legislative proposal on the introduction of electronic detention. The governing Labour Party (PvdA) and Liberal Party (VVD) voted in favor of the proposal while the opposition parties...
Three members of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, the party led and supported mainly by Bulgarians of Turkish ethnicity, have been penalized by the Central Election Commission for campaigning in Turkish before...
The Supreme Court of Poland has dismissed the cassation appeal of a Sikh who argued he went through an unlawful search by Border Guards at the Warsaw airport, including being forced to remove his turban.
Responding to Prime Minister David Cameron's promise of a British Bill of Rights to replace the Human Rights Act in his Conservative Party Conference speech today, Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty,...
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As migrant deaths continue to mount in the Mediterranean - with more than 700 perishing in recent days - Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Nils Muižnieks calls on Europe to wake up about the crisis on...
The National Ombudsman of the Netherlands is no longer taking part in the National Preventive Mechanism (NPM). The NPM was founded in 2011 to prevent inhuman and degrading treatment of citizens kept in detention. The...
For the 12th time in Bulgaria, the Access to Information Programme (AIP) awarded prizes for contribution to the field of freedom of information. The Prosecutor's Office, however, won the derisive "Padlock Award" for...
Several Polish judges who were refused official appointments to judicial offices in 2007 have lodged applications with the European Court of Human Rights, after national courts at every level refused to compel the president to seat them.
Belgian politician Armand De Decker, from the liberal Reformist Movement party, has proposed re-education camps for radicalized young Muslims returning from Syria. Alexis Deswaef, the president of the League of Human...
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