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Greek Trial of 24 Aid Workers ‘Aimed to Criminalise Solidarity’

Balkan Insight 16 Jan 2026
Rights organisations hail acquittal of 24 humanitarian workers who took part in migrant rescue operations in Greece, slating the trial as ‘an attempt to criminalise solidarity and demonise humanitarian organisations’ ....
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ECHR to undermine British troops in Ukraine

The Daily Telegraph 15 Jan 2026
British soldiers sent into Ukraine for peace-keeping will be bound by the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) ... British soldiers who served in Afghanistan and Iraq faced a wave of ECHR-linked court cases, some from Taliban members Credit.
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Tories move to ban inmates from using ECHR to sue prison service

The Daily Telegraph 14 Jan 2026
Mr Jenrick’s bill would create a carve out in law for the Human Rights Act and ECHR so that terrorists and violent offenders could not make human rights or procedural claims to challenge their detention.
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Migrant uses ECHR to keep young family in retirement flat

The Daily Telegraph 14 Jan 2026
He has lived in Britain since 1997 ... Mr Haque claimed that any attempt to evict his family would breach his rights under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), which protects the right to a family life ... The case continues ... X Icon ... .
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Pakistani asylum seeker using ECHR to try to get adult children to UK

The Daily Telegraph 05 Jan 2026
The two children appealed, claiming that it breached their Article 8 rights to a family life under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) ... Recommended ECHR 'stops prisons keeping extremists under control' Read more.
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Jailed Islamist killer who won payout under ECHR rules for solitary confinement held prison officer ...

The Daily Mail 03 Jan 2026
Drug gangster turned jihadist sympathiser Fuad Awale, 38, used European rights laws to argue that his being locked up alone was unfair - despite the move following his hostage taking terror attack ....
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ECHR ‘stops prisons keeping extremists under control’

AOL 03 Jan 2026
Jonathan Hall KC, the independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, says jailed extremists’ use of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) is creating ...
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The Fuad Awale case shows what's wrong with the ECHR

The Spectator 02 Jan 2026
on the accepted Strasbourg-inspired interpretation of the ECHR, Awale’s human rights were breached ... If such bureaucratisation is indeed required by human rights ECHR-style, this of itself is a good reason to keep them at arm’s length.
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Fury at £240,000 Taxpayer Payout for Islamist Killer Under ECHR Rules

The Daily Sceptic 02 Jan 2026
He later used Article 8 of the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) to claim his segregation – designed to prevent him harming officers and radicalising inmates – had breached his right to life.
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Pension Fraud Suspects Use ECHR to Fight Deportation

The Daily Sceptic 30 Dec 2025
A divorced couple accused of a £26 million South American pension fraud have used the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) to avoid being extradited from Britain ... three rights under the ECHR.
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Kemi Badenoch: Alaa Abd El-Fattah Should be Stripped of His British Citizenship

The Daily Sceptic 29 Dec 2025
The Leader of the Opposition has written a piece for the Mail demanding that Alaa Abd El-Fattah should be stripped of his British citizenship and deported, piling pressure on Sir Keir Starmer. Here’s how it begins. ... There ends my sympathy ... Stop Press ... 0.
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How a murderer’s ECHR victory helped ‘extremist’ win British citizenship

AOL 28 Dec 2025
It was 9.30pm on Christmas Day, 2010, and Alaa Abd el-Fattah, a prolific Egyptian user of what was then known as Twitter, was hitting send on his latest social media missive ... He was, after all, not British ... .
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