I intervened in the #ECtHR case on #Georgia’s Transparency of Foreign Influence Law, lodged by 120 civil society organisations, 16 media outlets and 4 individuals. The law restricts #FreedomOfExpression and #FreedomOfAssociation.

👇Read my submission to European Court of Human Rights #ECHR
https://www.coe.int/en/web/commissioner/-/commissioner-o-flaherty-intervenes-in-ecthr-case-on-georgia-s-foreign-influence-law

Professor Francesca Klug, a human rights expert (quoted by Rachel Sylvester in the Observer):

'Withdrawing from the ECHR is like a sacrifice to the gods. It would have little bearing on stopping asylum seekers from coming over on small boats, but it would severely reduce cooperation with other European states'.

It seem likely that behind this clamour to constrain human rights' protection is the Right's paymasters' desire to reduce workers' protections!

#ECHR #workers
https://observer.co.uk/news/national/article/a-useful-political-scapegoat-how-human-rights-play-out-in-the-uk

Professor Francesca Klug, a human rights expert (quoted by Rachel Sylvester in the Observer):

'Withdrawing from the ECHR is like a sacrifice to the gods. It would have little bearing on stopping asylum seekers from coming over on small boats, but it would severely reduce cooperation with other European states'.

It seem likely that behind this clamour to constrain human rights' protection is the Right's paymasters' desire to reduce workers' protections!

#ECHR #workers
https://observer.co.uk/news/national/article/a-useful-political-scapegoat-how-human-rights-play-out-in-the-uk