UK Supreme Court rules no human rights protections for soldiers abroad

[JURIST] The UK Supreme Court [official website] ruled [judgment, PDF; press summary, PDF] Wednesday that the 1998 Human Rights Act, which incorporates the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) texts] into English law, does not apply to armed forces on foreign soil and that a soldier's family does not have an automatic right to an in...

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