The UK government's intention to amend Brexit-related legislation 'threatens to embolden autocratic regimes,' human rights lawyer Amal Clooney says.
Prominent human rights lawyer Amal Clooney on Friday resigned her post as a UK envoy for media freedom, in protest at the government's"lamentable" decision to breach its EU divorce treaty.
"Although the government has suggested that the violation of international law would be 'specific and limited', it is lamentable for the UK to be speaking of its intention to violate an international treaty signed by the prime minister less than a year ago."On her appointment to the UK role in April 2019, Clooney had said she welcomed the opportunity to build on her legal defence of persecuted journalists by working with the government to champion a free press around the world.
The argument has failed to persuade two other jurists who have quit their government roles recently including its most senior law officer for Scotland, Richard Keen.'It's time Australia joined the club': Amal Clooney urges government to ban international criminals
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