Why is international human rights law such an easy target?
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein delivered the following speech at the Law Society in London, 26 June 2017
( June 27, 2017, London, Sri Lanka Guardian) “Earlier this month, Britain’s Prime Minister called for human rights laws to be overturned if they were to “get in the way” in the fight against terrorism. Specifically, Theresa May said there was a need “to restrict the freedom and movement of terrorist suspects when we have enough evidence to know they are a threat, but not evidence to prosecute them in full in court.” For an increasingly anxious public, shaken by the recent and dreadful terrorist attacks, her remarks no doubt reflected real anger and frustration, but they also seemed intended to strike a chord with a certain sector of the electorate, and it is this expectation that truly worries me.