“There aren't enough lawyers and judges on the planet if
journalists are silent, because abuses of power just don't come
to light, in my experience, without this relationship between a
free media, fair courts, fair trials, robust judges,
investigators, the police and so on. Without journalists there'd
be no human rights protection and the rule of law.”
Anna Holligan speaks to human rights lawyer and Council of Europe
rapporteur Shami Chakrabarti.
Born in London in 1969, Chakrabarti rose to prominence in the
early 2000s when she was appointed director of the human rights
organisation, Liberty. She and her team made headlines around the
world campaigning against what they considered excessive
anti-terror legislation introduced in the aftermath of the 9/11
attacks.
She stepped down from the position just over a decade later,
after being appointed a life peer in the British House of Lords.
Since then, she’s been involved in a number of high-profile
inquiries both in the UK and abroad. Most recently, she’s been
tasked with leading a Council of Europe investigation into the
fallout from the 2017 assassination of Maltese journalist Daphne
Caruana Galizia.
Caruana Galizia, one of Malta’s best-known anti-corruption
journalists, was killed by a car bomb in October 2017. Her
assassination and the continuing questions over the murder has
raised serious concerns about the rule of law in Malta, an EU
member state, as well as fears that corruption at the
highest-levels could have wider implications for the European
Union.
Thank you to the Global Eye team for their help in making this
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