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Sir Patrick Stewart has released a comic video highlighting the benefits of membership of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), on the same day as Home Secretary has said the UK should withdraw from it."
"We are a democracy, not some perverse genuflecting mouse-puppet on a European finger," the actor angrily declares in the video, made by The Guardian newspaper. "Europe took our sovereignty, our dignity, the very essence of our Britishness, and what the ECHR ever given us in return?"
His colleagues inform him that the right to a fair trial, the right to privacy, freedom from torture, freedom of religion, freedom to expression, and protecting victims of domestic violence are among the rights the ECHR enshrines, while the...