{"id":729928,"date":"2022-07-04T18:50:50","date_gmt":"2022-07-04T18:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/law\/2022\/jul\/04\/senior-council-of-europe-official-urges-uk-not-to-repeal-human-rights-act"},"modified":"2022-07-04T18:50:50","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T18:50:50","slug":"senior-council-of-europe-official-urges-uk-not-to-repeal-human-rights-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/07\/04\/senior-council-of-europe-official-urges-uk-not-to-repeal-human-rights-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior Council of Europe official urges UK not to repeal Human Rights Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Council\u2019s commissioner for human rights says replacing act with British bill of rights would send \u2018wrong signal\u2019<\/p><p>A senior <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/law\/council-of-europe\">Council of Europe<\/a> official has warned the UK government against weakening protections for its citizens by repealing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/law\/human-rights-act\">Human Rights Act<\/a>.<\/p><p>Dunja Mijatovi\u0107, the council\u2019s commissioner for human rights, said on Monday that replacing the act with a British bill of rights would send the \u201cwrong signal\u201d.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/law\/2022\/jul\/04\/senior-council-of-europe-official-urges-uk-not-to-repeal-human-rights-act\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/law\/2022\/jul\/04\/senior-council-of-europe-official-urges-uk-not-to-repeal-human-rights-act\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Council\u2019s commissioner for human rights says replacing act with British bill of rights would send \u2018wrong signal\u2019A senior Council of Europe official has warned the UK government against weakening protections for its citizens by repealing the Human Right&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6227,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2007,2944,6,10477,640],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729928"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":729929,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729928\/revisions\/729929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}