{"id":388,"date":"2022-03-29T17:17:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T16:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/the-citizens.com\/?p=388"},"modified":"2023-12-19T17:09:51","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T17:09:51","slug":"russia-report-legal-case-goes-to-strasbourg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-citizens.com\/2022\/03\/russia-report-legal-case-goes-to-strasbourg\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Report legal case goes to Strasbourg"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='iframe-wrapper'><iframe width='100%' height='315' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mLk_CiBmW_c' frameborder='0' allow='accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture' allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\t<p class=\"article-intro\">\n\t    A cross-party group of MPs and peers is going to the European Court of Human Rights to challenge the UK Government\u2019s failure to investigate Russian interference in UK electoral processes. The landmark legal action has been launched in response to the government\u2019s failure to act on the findings of the Russia Report, published by the Intelligence and Security Committee in July 2020, which reported credible evidence of attempts by Russia to interfere with the UK\u2019s electoral processes.\t<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The parliamentary group which is bringing the action includes Ben Bradshaw MP, Caroline Lucas MP, Alyn Smith MP, Lord Strasburger and Baroness Wheatcroft. They claim the government is in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights (Article 3, Protocol 1) which requires regular, free, secret-ballot elections which \u201censure the free expression of the opinion of the people\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>\u201cAs President Putin wages a war of terror on the Ukrainian people, he\u2019s been waging another war on the very principles of democracy. The Russia Report is clear that there is credible evidence of Russian interference in UK electoral process \u2013 and yet our Government has consistently refused to investigate these serious conclusions.\u201d <\/p><cite>Caroline Lucas, Green MP<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Russia Report declared Russian interference in the UK \u2018the new normal\u201d and reported \u201ccredible attempts\u201d to interfere with the UK\u2019s electoral processes from at least the time of the EU referendum in 2016. The Intelligence and Security Committee called for an investigation and an updated legal and institutional framework to protect those processes from foreign interference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the government failed to act on these recommendations, the cross-parliamentary group joined forces with the Citizens to file an application for judicial review in August 2020. Permission for judicial review was refused by the High Court and the group\u2019s application for permission to appeal was turned down by the Court of Appeal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe now have no other option than to take our case to the European Court of Human Rights, in order to try to force the Government to undertake a full investigation into the evidence, or else we jeopardise the free and fair elections we hold dear and allow Putin to believe that, once again, he can get away with hostile state interference in our democratic processes,\u201d said Caroline Lucas MP.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<section id=\"feed-content-block_23aa73b9ebda315189d7933216297eb7\" class=\"featured-link-blocks standard-block recent-posts   content-loop\">\n\t\t\n\t<div class='row'>\n\t<div class='col-md-12 col-lg-12 col-xl-10'>\n\t\t <h2>Media highlights<\/h2><div class='row yellow-strip'><div class='col-xs-6 col-sm-6 col-lg-4 column  campaign'><div class='linkblock'><a href='https:\/\/the-citizens.com\/2022\/03\/the-guardian-mps-take-russian-election-interference-case-to-human-rights-court\/' class='img-container' style='background-image: url(https:\/\/the-citizens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/European-Court-of-Human-Rights-300x300.jpg)'><\/a><div class='text-container'><div class='h2-sf-container'><h2><a href='https:\/\/the-citizens.com\/2022\/03\/the-guardian-mps-take-russian-election-interference-case-to-human-rights-court\/'>The Guardian: MPs take Russian election interference case to human rights court<\/a><\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='col-xs-6 col-sm-6 col-lg-4 column  campaign'><div class='linkblock'><a href='https:\/\/the-citizens.com\/2021\/06\/the-independent-reports-on-latest-stage-of-our-landmark-russia-legal-action\/' class='img-container' style='background-image: url(https:\/\/the-citizens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Kremlinatsunset-300x300.jpg)'><\/a><div class='text-container'><div class='h2-sf-container'><h2><a href='https:\/\/the-citizens.com\/2021\/06\/the-independent-reports-on-latest-stage-of-our-landmark-russia-legal-action\/'>The Independent reports on latest stage of our landmark Russia legal action<\/a><\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='col-xs-6 col-sm-6 col-lg-4 column  campaign'><div class='linkblock'><a href='https:\/\/the-citizens.com\/2020\/08\/bbc-boris-johnson-threatened-with-legal-action-over-russia-threat\/' class='img-container' style='background-image: url(https:\/\/the-citizens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Russianembassyflag-300x300.jpg)'><\/a><div class='text-container'><div class='h2-sf-container'><h2><a href='https:\/\/the-citizens.com\/2020\/08\/bbc-boris-johnson-threatened-with-legal-action-over-russia-threat\/'>BBC: Boris Johnson threatened with legal action over Russia threat<\/a><\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The parliamentary group which is bringing the action includes Ben Bradshaw MP, Caroline Lucas MP, Alyn Smith MP, Lord Strasburger and Baroness Wheatcroft. They claim the government is in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights (Article 3, Protocol 1) which requires regular, free, secret-ballot elections which \u201censure the free expression of the opinion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":559,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[23,40,24,17],"ctzn_campaign_type":[94],"ctzn_theme":[191],"ctzn_investigation_type":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Russia Report legal case goes to Strasbourg - The Citizens<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/the-citizens.com\/2022\/03\/russia-report-legal-case-goes-to-strasbourg\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Russia Report legal case goes to Strasbourg - The Citizens\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The parliamentary group which is bringing the action includes Ben Bradshaw MP, Caroline Lucas MP, Alyn Smith MP, Lord Strasburger and Baroness Wheatcroft. 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