“The European Court of Human Rights has rejected the claim of three expartes of the British Parliament, which demanded that the government investigate the likely influence of Russian misinformation on the results of the Brexit referendum and parliamentary elections.”, – WRITE: www.pravda.com.ua
Source: “European Truth” with reference to The Guardian
Details: The ECtHR in the decision announced on Tuesday found that countries have a “wide space” to identify ways to combat attempts to interfere with their elections.
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The court in Strasbourg agreed that initially the British government’s reaction to Russia’s accusations of vote for exit from the EU in 2016 was not enough, but the shortcomings were subsequently eliminated.
They recalled that there were two investigations in Britain – including a report of the Parliamentary Committee on Russia in 2020 – and adopted legislation to counteract foreign intervention.
“Although the applicants have criticized these measures as” too small and delayed “, they, nevertheless, seem to resolve the issues raised by the applicants,” the ECtHR said.
The court also concluded that although the threat posed by misinformation should not be underestimated, the influence of Russian or other attempts to interfere with the election process “difficult to evaluate accurately”.
Three former British deputies and opponents Brexit have filed a claim to investigate Russia’s interference in the election process after the report on the Russian Federation in 2020.
They argued that the British government and the intelligence services did not properly evaluate the Kremlin’s attempts to interfere with the Brexit vote, which, in their opinion, is a violation of Article 3 of the Protocol and the European Convention on Human Rights concerning the right to free elections.
As early as 2020, Boris Johnson and a supporter Brexit rejected the assumption that Russia had influenced the exit from the European Union.