Tag: European Convention on Human Rights

• Thursday, March 31st 2016 - 00:28 UTC

  European Court supports UK ruling on Brazilian mistakenly shot dead in 2005

  

  British authorities were right not to prosecute police officers over the killing of a Brazilian man who was shot dead on the London Underground after being mistaken for a suicide bomber, a European court ruled on Wednesday.

• Tuesday, September 4th 2012 - 06:18 UTC

  Hague says Assange rights protected by Sweden, UK, EU and international law

  

  UK Foreign Secretary William Hague said that any suggestion of a risk of breach for Julian Assange’s human rights on extradition to Sweden is completely unfounded and recalled that international, EU and UK law fully address the concerns raised by Assange and by the Government of Ecuador.