Monday, December 7, 2020

France security law incompatible with human rights, say UN experts — Kim Willsher

UN experts have urged France to completely revise a proposed new security law, deeming it “incompatible” with international law and human rights.

Five independent UN special reporters took the French government to task over the proposed legislation and said tinkering with it by rewriting certain clauses was not enough....
Defend Democracy Press
France security law incompatible with human rights, say UN experts
Kim Willsher in Paris

6 comments:

Peter Pan said...

What about the right of the police to beat someone senseless without having their good deed aired on video?

Marian Ruccius said...

Not a problem -- Macron could just revoke targeted groups' claims to humanity. Problem solved. Nothing like replacing individual rights with broad caricatures of social groups -- perfectly in line with the Chinese Government's, Stalin's, or Mladic's approach.

Andrew Anderson said...

Nothing like replacing individual rights with broad caricatures of social groups ... Marian Ruccius

Ancient Israel, per the Bible (Deuteronomy 23:3-8), put groups on probation before they could enter "the assembly of the Lord" - three generations for some and ten generations for others.

A broad caricature or a recognition that cultural assimilation is needed?

S400 said...

“ -- perfectly in line with the Chinese Government's, Stalin's, or Mladic's approach.”

Perfectly in line with any elite driven government. So your deliberate exclusion of the west was not pretty but typical of a self righteous westerner.

Marian Ruccius said...

S400 so in your book France and Serbia are not part of the West? Naw, I just chose three notoriously despotic régimes where individual rights were destroyed for the false purported benefits of the collective.

Matt Franko said...

S needs google earth....