The Strasbourg human rights physique whose court docket blocked the Rwanda deportation flights yesterday {accused} Britain of displaying ‘an antagonistic perspective’ in direction of fundamental freedoms.
The Council of Europe, which oversees the European Courtroom of Human Rights, lashed out on the UK in a report lecturing the nation on how one can run its borders.
It additionally criticised the therapy of trans individuals, opposed plans to guard Northern Eire veterans from prosecution, and urged Britain to not hand over WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the US.
Tory backbencher Ian Liddell-Grainger stated its findings had been ‘smug’ and displayed a ‘full lack of knowledge about Britain’. He added: ‘We have to pull out of this ridiculous organisation which has no legitimacy… these officers wouldn’t be allowed to run a fish and chip store in Skegness.’
The Council of Europe, which oversees the European Courtroom of Human Rights, lashed out on the UK in a report lecturing the nation on how one can run its borders
The council, which has acquired £310million from Britain over the previous decade, goals to uphold human rights, democracy and the rule of regulation throughout the continent.
The 47-page tirade by its human rights commissioner Dunja Mijatovic claimed the Authorities’s immigration insurance policies ‘put the human rights of refugees, asylum seekers and migrants in danger’.
She demanded ‘the enlargement of secure and authorized routes’ for asylum seekers to return to Britain, and likewise {accused} ministers of ‘stirring up concern’ by encouraging ‘a public rhetoric that stigmatises and dehumanises these making an attempt to cross the Channel to the UK’.
Different ‘suggestions’ embrace permitting people to ‘self-identify’ because the gender of their alternative – Britain at present permits individuals to vary their gender solely with the approval of a medical panel.
The report was revealed after Bosnian Ms Mijatovic, who has beforehand referred to as the UK’s migration insurance policies ‘repressive’, visited Britain for 5 days earlier this yr.
