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Liberty News

24 May 2012

Four campaigns: Four actions

The dust has now settled after this month’s Queen’s Speech, which set out the Coalition Government’s legislative intentions for the next year – and brought with it a whole new host of challenges for fundamental rights and freedoms in the UK.

The ongoing support of Liberty’s members and followers will prove...

22 May 2012

Huffing and Puffing Over Prisoner Votes

In today’s Grand Chamber judgment in the case of Scoppola v. Italy (n° 3) (application no. 126/05), which is final, the European Court of Human Rights held, by a majority, that there had been no violation of Article 3 of Protocol No. 1 (right to free elections) to the European Convention on Human...

21 May 2012

Liberty intervenes in European Court case over French ‘burqa ban’

Today Liberty announced it is intervening in the European Court of Human Rights case concerning the criminalisation of face coverings in France.

The so-called ‘burqa ban’ – which came into force last year – outlaws French...

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