The Prime Minister said: “The Court should be free to deal with the most serious violations of human rights; it should not be swamped with an endless backlog of cases.”
In this podcast, Adam Wagner and Clare Ovey discuss the anger in the British media towards the European Court of Human Rights.
“Yuliya Tymoshenko is offered the best hopsital and medical treatment but she refuses for reasons which only she can explain,” said Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Konstantin Grishenko. “The penitentiary system is considering the possibility of involving international medical expertise for this purpose.”
Barrister and founding editor of the UK Human Rights Blog Adam Wagner, offers advice to the Court on winning over public opinion and looks ahead to UK Prime Minister David Cameron’s speech to the Parliamentary Assembly later today.
After a first round election victory, Nils Muižnieks (Latvia) today became the third Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights.
