(Politico) A European court has ruled that U.K. border officials violated Article 8 of the European Convention of Human Rights — which guarantees citizens the right to respect for private and family life — when they stopped a French national at a British airport in 2011 on her return from visiting her husband in a French prison where he was serving time for terrorism offences.
Ruling in the case of Beghal vs. United Kingdom Thursday, European Court of Human Rights judges found unanimously that counter-terrorism legislation at the time “had not been sufficiently circumscribed.”
Sylvie Beghal, who lives in Leicester in the English Midlands, alleged that border officials breached a series of human rights under Schedule 7 of the counter-terrorism legislation when they stopped and questioned her at East Midlands Airport after she had visited her husband in jail in France.
