“Tribunal: British secret service is acting not in conflict with human rights”

The large-scale espionage of the British inlichtigendienst GCHQ is not in breach of the human rights. That has a British mensenrechtentribunaal ruled, in a case that was brought by Amnesty, Privacy International and the ACLU.

The Uk’s Investigatory Powers Tribunal, that complaints about the actions of the secret services, treats, considers the actions of the British secret service are not in conflict with the human rights or British law. That writes The Guardian. A number of civil liberty organisations point had filed a complaint.

The tribunal noted that ‘the impression is created that the secret services, everything is just allowed, and carte blanche. “We are glad that that is not so,” said the tribunal. However, will the tribunal still investigate whether the communication of the civil liberty organisations point is mistakenly intercepted, as they feared.

The IPT has in his fourteen existence never had a complaint propped up. Also, it is not possible to appeal at the tribunal, complainants can still appeal to the European Court of Justice. The case is separate from the complaint that the Dutch hosting provider Greenhost together with a number of other organisations in the IPT submitted; that case is still pending.