{"id":721929,"date":"2022-06-28T16:58:42","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T16:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/law\/2022\/jun\/28\/the-tory-bill-of-rights-is-a-gift-to-the-worlds-tyrants"},"modified":"2022-06-28T16:58:42","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T16:58:42","slug":"the-tory-bill-of-rights-is-a-gift-to-the-worlds-tyrants-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/06\/28\/the-tory-bill-of-rights-is-a-gift-to-the-worlds-tyrants-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tory bill of rights is a gift to the world\u2019s tyrants | Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"
Leaders of repressive regimes will have licence to ignore international human rights standards, warns Mike Cushman<\/strong>. Plus letters from Prof Julian Petley<\/strong> and Margaret Owen<\/strong><\/p> Your editorial on the Tories\u2019 new bill of rights (22 June<\/a>) makes many important points. It is, however, like almost all of the discussion of this threat to human rights, depressingly narrow and inward-looking. The great danger here is the licence that putting national prejudices above international overviews will give to regimes more directly repressive that our own.<\/p> International human rights law is designed to put constraints on the most authoritarian governments. It does this in part by more liberal countries accepting restrictions on their actions and setting a platform of minimum acceptable standards. The British drafters of the European convention on human rights understood this.<\/p> Continue reading...<\/a>\n