Increasingly bizarre court decisions taken under the guise of the European Convention of Human Rights, allowing murderers and rapists to avoid extradition on specious excuses are leading to pressure for reform.
The ECHR, agreed after World War 11 by Churchill, Adenauer, Mitterrand and others came into force on 3 September 1953 in part as a defence against Stalinism. Any person who feels their rights have been violated under the convention by a country can take a case to the court. Judgments are binding on the states concerned and they are obliged to execute them. Only Russia and Belarus are not signatories.
Recent cases have allowed criminals to stay in the UK because their removal might upset their children. Another in today’s Times refers to a murderer who was sentenced to 14 years in jail in Brazil for repeatedly raping a five year-old girl who fled to the UK before he could be convicted and was on Interpol’s most-wanted list. A British judge refused Brazil’s extradition request on the basis that it would violate his Article 3 rights.
It is clear it needs to be reformed or the UK Faragists will win the argument for a complete withdrawal. It came into effect when there was a fearsome Mars Pluto conjunction in Leo on the midpoint of Jupiter in Gemini trine Neptune Saturn in Libra – a curious mixture of enlightened thinking and bullying domination. The Saturn Neptune’s drive for better society backed up by an immoveable Mars Pluto. There is a Sun Mercury in Virgo and a 1st house caring Cancer Moon as well.
The central Trine has moved by Solar Arc to catch the tr Saturn Neptune square the Solar Arc Neptune Saturn in 2026/28; tr Pluto to square the SA Mars Pluto also in 2026/28 and tr Uranus square the SA Jupiter in 2026/27/28. Plus tr Pluto conjunct the 8th house North Node and then opposition the Venus so any changes will be hard fought and difficult to accomplish.
The UK’s relationship chart with the ECHR is being undermined by tr Neptune square the composite Mars exactly now and into 2026; alongside a major upheaval from tr Uranus conjunct the Pluto square Uranus through the winter into mid 2026. With further challenges from 2026 for several years with tr Pluto square the composite Neptune and then Sun and Venus.
There could be an exit late in the decade though only after protracted pressure for real change.
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