Brits should abandon Human Rights treaty that protects terrorist

Telegraph:

Britain must withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights to protect the country from terrorism, it was said today.

Migrationwatch, which campaigns against mass immigration, said the treaty acts as a "positive encouragement" for terrorists to come to Britain.

Human rights law should be rewritten to become "appropriate to the new age of terrorism" by excluding convicted terrorists from its provisions, it said.

The group suggested the ECHR, signed by Britain in 1951 and adopted into domestic law under the Human Rights Act in 1998, allowed terrorists to remain in the UK even after serving a jail sentence.

The convention prevents the Government from deporting foreign terror suspects if they could face torture or ill-treatment in their home countries.

Migrationwatch also said the ECHR prevents the Government taking action against terrorism suspects on British soil, after a House of Lords ruling ended indefinite detention without trial on human rights grounds.

A new Human Rights Act should specifically allow terrorist suspects to be detained for long periods of time, a report by the group said.

"The ECHR renders foreign terrorists safe from deportation and, in effect, provides them with a meal ticket for life," said Migrationwatch chairman Sir Andrew Green.

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The treaty has made deportation from the UK ridiculously difficult. It is the primary reason why the government has had to put terror suspects under "control" orders which has led to many of them absconding. It sounds like something the Democrats would like.

Student visas are also a way for terrorist to enter and evade detection in the UK.