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Why rights groups fear new ECHR declaration could weaken migrant protections

The Guardian 15 May 2026
The ECHR system has become a political battleground, with both the Conservatives and Reform UK pledging to ...
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Nearly half of judges at European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) were not judges in ...

The Daily Mail 15 May 2026
Analysis shows that 19 of 44 justices had no experience of being a judge before joining the Strasbourg court ....
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Europe backs Rwanda-style migrant camps in shake-up of ECHR

The Daily Telegraph 15 May 2026
European governments have demanded permission to run Rwanda-style offshore migrant camps in a push to reform the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) ... ECHR interpretation could lead to more concrete future reforms.
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Cypriot drug gang leader granted right to remain under Windrush scheme

The Daily Telegraph 14 May 2026
The King’s Speech announced new legislation from Shabana Mahmood, the Home Secretary, aimed at restricting the ability of illegal migrants to use the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) to ...
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Labour needs Europe strike a deal on ECHR migration reform

The Spectator 13 May 2026
Yet, today it will host the committee of ministers representing the 46 members of the Council of Europe (a different body to the EU) to discuss the future of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
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Conservatives would quit ECHR and drill in North Sea as they unveil ‘alternative King’s Speech’

The Independent 10 May 2026
Kemi Badenoch has previously apologised for ‘mistakes’ made by the Tory administrations she served in .
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Kemi says Tories will quit the ECHR and restart drilling in the North Sea in ...

The Daily Mail 10 May 2026
Kemi Badenoch 's party vowed to quit the ECHR, triple stop-and-search and restart drilling in the North Sea under an agenda presented in their 'alternative King's Speech' ....
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Switzerland 'violated freedom of assembly': ECHR verdict

Swissinfo 07 May 2026
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that Switzerland violated the freedom of assembly and association of a demonstration organiser ... + Seven ways the ECHR has shaped Swiss law over the ...
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ECtHR rules judge denied fair promotion review

CyprusMail 07 May 2026
In a judgment on Thursday, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) found in favour of a Cypriot judge who had complained he had been arbitrarily refused promotion to the post of district court president ... ....
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Britain ‘will be like Russia’ if it quits ECHR

The Daily Telegraph 06 May 2026
The Conservatives and Reform UK have both pledged to leave the ECHR if they win the next general election and blamed the convention for preventing tougher action on illegal immigration ... The ECHR underpins the UK’s Human Rights Act.
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Athens Bar Weighs European Court Appeal Over Greece’s Wiretapping Case Archiving

Greek Reporter 06 May 2026
European Court of Human Rights. Credit. wikimedia commons / Djtm CC BY 3.0 ... He referred to the case of former prosecutor Georgia Tsatani, which led the European Court of Human Rights to condemn Greece, as well as the recent Kanev v ... ....
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Secretary General in the UK: “The ECHR is Europe’s democratic compass” (Council of Europe)

Public Technologies 23 Apr 2026
). The Secretary General of the 46-member Council of Europe, Alain Berset, paid his first official visit to the United Kingdom on Wednesday 22 and Thursday 23 April ... He also attended a lunch hosted by House of Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle ... Disclaimer.
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