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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
David Young

UK would be following Putin’s lead if it abandoned ECHR, committee warned

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The UK would be following Vladimir Putin’s lead it if took the “absolutely outrageous” step of withdrawing from the European Convention on Human Rights, an Irish parliamentary committee has heard.

Such a move would undermine the human rights protections that are central to Northern Ireland’s landmark Good Friday peace agreement, Amnesty International warned.

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