Song: Excerpt: Letter to David Cameron on the Detention of David Miranda
Viewed: 32 - Published at: 7 years ago
Artist: U.N. Special Rapporteur Frank
Year: 2013Viewed: 32 - Published at: 7 years ago
La Rue:
The protection of national security secrets must never be used as an excuse to intimidate the press into silence and backing off from its crucial work in the clarification of human rights violations. The press plays a central role in the clarification of human rights abuses...
...It is clear that the revelations on the extensive mass surveillance initiatives implemented by some governments needs to be widely debated.The intimidation of journalists and newspapers questioning alleged abuses by intelligence bodies is certainly not a contribution to the open debate that needs to take place. Under no circumstances, journalists, members of the media, or civil society organisations who have access to classified information on an alleged violation of human rights should be subjected to intimidation and subsequent punishment.
...National laws regulating communications surveillance are often inadequate or simply do not exist today. “Privacy and freedom of expression are interdependent rights - without adequate protection to privacy, security and anonymity of communications, no one can be sure that his or her private communications are not under States’ scrutiny.
Emmerson:
...The powers used in this case are currently under challenge in the European court of human rights. I urge the British authorities to review their operations to ensure that they comply fully with the UK's obligations under the European convention on human rights regarding the right to liberty and security, and the right to respect for private and family life.
The protection of national security secrets must never be used as an excuse to intimidate the press into silence and backing off from its crucial work in the clarification of human rights violations. The press plays a central role in the clarification of human rights abuses...
...It is clear that the revelations on the extensive mass surveillance initiatives implemented by some governments needs to be widely debated.The intimidation of journalists and newspapers questioning alleged abuses by intelligence bodies is certainly not a contribution to the open debate that needs to take place. Under no circumstances, journalists, members of the media, or civil society organisations who have access to classified information on an alleged violation of human rights should be subjected to intimidation and subsequent punishment.
...National laws regulating communications surveillance are often inadequate or simply do not exist today. “Privacy and freedom of expression are interdependent rights - without adequate protection to privacy, security and anonymity of communications, no one can be sure that his or her private communications are not under States’ scrutiny.
Emmerson:
...The powers used in this case are currently under challenge in the European court of human rights. I urge the British authorities to review their operations to ensure that they comply fully with the UK's obligations under the European convention on human rights regarding the right to liberty and security, and the right to respect for private and family life.
( U.N. Special Rapporteur Frank )
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