European Convention on Human Rights

Gangs smuggling boat migrants across the English Channel may be linked to a Taliban military formation and pose a serious national security risk, according to Nigel Farage. 

To deal will the migrant crisis in the English Channel, the UK needs to embark on nothing less than a Brexit 2.0 project, Nigel Farage said.

The UK government will finally be able to overrule European judges on the deportation of migrants under reforms to human rights rules.

A now-fired British police officer and former prison guard faces imprisonment for sending “grossly offensive” memes about George Floyd on WhatsApp.

Britain’s governing Conservative Party is claiming, not for the first time, that it will reform human rights rules with a new British Bill of Rights, after judges blocked the removal of a murderer and several paedophiles.

A British police officer is facing racial misconduct charges for joking “maybe I should start eating curry” on hearing of a South Asian man aged 105.

You’d think that the issue of ‘child brides’ was something on which every Western government could agree…

Rapists belonging to one of Britain’s most notorious child grooming and rape gangs are still fighting their deportations to Pakistan using the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), claiming that their removal would breach their rights to a private and family life.

Judges have ruled an illegal migrant who stabbed a man to death after he was supposed to be deported can stay in Britain, citing his “human rights”.

Judges have once again thwarted deportation efforts by Priti Patel’s Home Office, blocking the removal of a convicted drug dealer from Nigeria.

Boris Johnson may bend to EU demands that Britain accept submission to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in perpetuity in exchange for a Brexit deal, according to reports. 

As Britain finally crawls towards its long-promised departure from the European Union, the timing is right to consider its place in the flawed European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) — a body the ruling Conservative Party promised to take the country out of in its 2015 election manifesto.

The British government is reportedly planning to speed up the deportations of failed asylum seekers and criminal migrants. However, there are no plans to withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights, which prohibits returning migrants to failed states.

Britain’s Supreme Court has thrown the country’s deportation policies into chaos by ruling that a foreign criminal cannot be deported to a country with poorer free healthcare than the United Kingdom. 

The EU’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier has said that the UK’s refusal to stay governed by the European Court of Human Rights will have an “immediate and concrete effect” on the kind of deal that Brussels is willing to sign with London.

Over 70 per cent of the British public backs Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s plan to end the automatic early release of convicted terrorists.

Chancellor Angela Merkel railed against free speech in the German parliament, declaring that freedom of expression which offends “the dignity of other people” must be censored to secure a truly free society.

The British government has rejected a petition calling for a Free Speech Act and an end to laws against so-called ‘hate speech’.

The European Court of Human Rights has made a landmark ruling that migrants who cross border fences which are still outside European Union territory have ‘rights as refugees’ – meaning Spanish authorities will no longer be allowed to return illegal immigrants to Morocco who storm border fences at the enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla.

More than 40 convicted foreign terrorists have used the Human Rights Act (HRA) – some using legal aid – to avoid deportation and remain in the UK.

The Conservative Party is likely to drop a 2015 pledge to withdraw Britain from the European Convention on Human Rights, leaving Britain bound by the convention for at least another five years.

Migrants are marrying women in Britain who are already pregnant in order to avoid deportation, a report from the borders and immigration inspectorate has revealed.

The Jerusalem Post reports: Dutch Foreign Minister Bert Koenders announced Thursday that calls to boycott the Jewish state fall within the limits of free speech, undermining intensive Israeli diplomatic efforts to sway European capitals to outlaw the Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment Movement.

A major clause in the UK’s Terrorism Act 2000 that allows border guards to question suspects when they arrive in the country is incompatible with European human rights laws, a senior judge has ruled. Ruling in the case of David

Amid wider concerns over freedom of expression and access to information in Turkey, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled the government violated fundamental freedoms when it blocked access to YouTube.  Turkey’s violation of the European Convention on Human

The requirement for immigrants to pass an English language test before coming to live in the UK may be relaxed, as judges at the Supreme Court have found that it contravenes the European Convention on Human Rights. Under current rules,

One third of those who won cases against the UK in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) are terrorists, criminals and prisoners. The figure is being promoted by a pro-human rights group as proof of the court’s good work,

LONDON, United Kingdom – Taking the opportunity for some international travel, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has been apologising to legal and conservative audiences in London for America’s international export of judicial activism, warning against unchecked interventions of foreign

A government minister has threatened to quit if the Conservatives go through with their manifesto pledge of scrapping the Human Rights Act and replacing it with a British Bill of Rights. The issue promises to be one of the main dividing

Families of Iraqis killed by British soldiers during the war may be able to sue the taxpayer after a landmark ruling in the High Court. Around 1,200 families are affected by the decision, which puts the wounding or killing under

A doctor who skipped bail in New York to avoid trial on charges of child rape has been allowed to stay in Britain after judges ruled that locking him up for a long time would contravene his human rights. 48