Thread by @DimitriosGian

We've been sounding the alarm for years: "they're coming for the Human Rights Act".
They're now here 👇

2. Through scholarly analysis and law-in-action evidence, human rights scholars and commentators have shown what the HRA has done for the UK (and warned about this day) 👇
@conorgearty @colmocinneide @LioraLazarus @davidallengreen @AdamWagner1 @dzehtsiarou @JoshuaRozenberg ...

3. ... @_lesliethomas @SarahLudford @EdBatesECHR @marthaspurrier @libertyhq @JUSTICEhq @JulianPetley @JonathanCoopr @KevinChilds101 @DrStellaCoyle @dickson_b @DrAlanGreene @PhilipLeach5 @ConallMallory @NMavronicola @ab1odun @NPapadopoulou_ @echrhawk @MayaSikandQC @andrew_cutting

4. As Raab unveils his (dreaded, dreadful) consultation today, I'll be revisiting 4 years of scholarly research/academic activism on Human Rights Act, which brought so many academics, legal professionals, NGOs and politicians together, to oppose encroachment of our human rights.

5. What happened to publication of the Independent Human Rights Act Review’s report?
@DominicRaab rushing for the anti-HRA headlines before that report has seen the light of day?
And they outdid themselves this time: bringing anti-woke and anti-human rights narratives together

6. Dominic Raab's "narrow understanding of human rights goes hand in hand with nationalistic illusions of grandeur, if not sheer xenophobia".
"Ongoing metamorphosis of right to life will attract the desperate and destitute from all over the world to Britain", wrote Raab in 2009!

7. About to discuss career destinations for 16-18 year olds (and mature students) interested in Law.
When we come to human rights, we'll probably have to tell them it's a fuzzy space moving in an unknown direction (for purely political reasons)!
#HumanRightsDay #Raab @AdamWagner1

8. Raab seems to have chosen the timing of this very carefully.
#HumanRightsDay #HumanRights #HumanRightsAct

98 Tory MPs rebelled against Govt's plans for #Covid19UK certificates.
The same MPs (probably) that are pushing for repeal/overhaul/updating - name that what you will - of Human Rights Act.
And we are told we need to have confidence in our Executive, to protect our rights?
#ECHR

10. UK Government "taking away control" of our human rights - Brexit will bulldoze over everything European. Next stop: the European Convention on Human Rights.

We were saying all this back in March 2017. This was no project fear.
#HumanRightsDay #HumanRights #ECHR #Brexit

11. Great thread by @AdamWagner1 offering 1st interpretation of key elements in Govt's consultation on Human Rights Act. Taking away "rights of certain classes of individuals" one of the most controversial aspects

https://twitter.com/DimitriosGian/status/1470868497819484163

12. A world exclusive for the UK government, a historic first, to be seeking to introduce a (modern) Bill of Rights whose sole purpose is to restrict - and take away - rights (from certain groups of people).
#ECHR #HumanRightsDay #HumanRightsAct #HumanRights