Human Rights, But Only For Criminals

With the exception of little white girls systematically raped by Pakistani Muslims, ‘far-right gammons’ (native white people) offensively waving flags in their own capital city and homeless veterans sleeping rough on the streets, just about every other tranche of British society has a dedicated activist group, demanding they get special treatment. While you may be fully on-board with Black Lives Matter, Stonewall, Mermaids and the Muslim Council of Britain, how concerned are you with the plight of Afghan rapists? Not nearly enough, I’d have thought.

But you ought to be. That, one can only assume, is the conclusion to draw from Westminster Magistrates’ Court, wherein Abdul Ahmadzai is currently appealing deportation. Having fled across the Channel post-conviction for raping a 14-year-old girl in France, Ahmadzai’s lawyer is concerned about Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights: “no one shall be subjected to torture or inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment”.

One wonders what terrifying degree of heinous torture this might refer to. Is it the prospect of three cordon bleu meals a day that is troubling Ahmadzai, the Brigitte Bardot lookalikes likely to be ‘manning’ the jails, or the Johnny Hallyday mix-tape emanating from the adjacent cell? Nope. In fact, it’s the cell size. According to Ahmadzai’s lawyer, there is the very “real risk” that his client could be “detained in a space fewer than three metres squared” if he were sent back to Paris.

This case puts me in an unusual position as a writer, as I actually have direct experience to draw upon. Earlier this year I was jailed for a fortnight, for the ‘crime’ of daring to object to the abuse (alienation) of my children in the divorce court. If Ahmadzai thinks French jails are bad, he should chance his arm in a South Korean prison – almost no aspect of which would pass an ECHR inspection: two square meters if you’re lucky, no bed, solitary confinement 23 and a half hours a day (48 hours without sunlight at the weekend), food that school dinner ladies wouldn’t expect you to eat – and that’s just the things I miss!

Ahmadzai’s appeal has been adjourned until October, during which time he will remain in custody – presumably enjoying at least three square meters of prime real estate. Assuming that French prisons truly are torturous, I can’t help wondering why the French authorities aren’t under pressure to ship their entire prison population across the Channel; and, more to the point, whether it will be Macron or Starmer who first suggests doing so?

While Ahmadzai’s case may sound absurd, it is in fact bread and butter to our ECHR overlords, and the human rights lawyers who routinely employ specious pretexts to foist violent criminals on the British public. To give a comprehensive account of all such abuses would probably require a Biblical tome, so allow me to just give you the recent highlights:

• Konrad Makocki, a Polish serial criminal with nine convictions including violence and domestic abuse, successfully blocked his deportation on the grounds that he had become a “father figure” to his nephew. Not only therefore would expulsion breach his ‘right to a family life’, it would also cause his nephew to suffer a ‘disproportionate’ impact if his uncle were deported.
• Fatmir Bleta, an Albanian national convicted in absentiaof shooting a man in the head with a Kalashnikov rifle, won the right to remain in the UK on the grounds that not being entitled to a re-trial would breach his Article 6 human rights.
• An anonymous Pakistani father, jailed for 18 months after attempting sex with “barely pubescent” girls, successfully avoided deportation on the basis that it would prove “unduly harsh on his children to be without their father”.
• Klevis Disha, an Albanian, first appeared on UK shores as an unaccompanied minor. Giving a false name and falsely claiming to have been born in the former Yugoslavia, Disha was stripped of his citizenship in 2021, after serving two years in prison when caught with the £300,000 ‘proceeds of crime’. Astonishingly, Disha cannot be deported because of his son’s aversion to ‘foreign’ chicken nuggets.
• William George, a ‘Belgian’ gang member convicted of manslaughter back in 2018, cannot be deported after a six-year Home Office battle. Apparently, EU nationals who have lived in Britain for an extended period can only be deported on “imperative grounds of public security”. Clearly, running a rival gang member over with a car and stabbing him in the neck doesn’t quite meet that threshold?
• Ernesto Elliott, a Jamiacan, successfully dodged deportation thanks to his “right to a family life”. In gratitude, Elliott went on to add murder to his extensive rap sheet, alongside knife, drug and firearm offences. This case was particularly noteworthy, as it involved the flight famously grounded by leftwing MPs and celebrities. They wrote an open letter to then Prime Minister Johnson, demanding all further deportations were cancelled because of the “unacceptable risk of removing anyone with a potential Windrush claim”.

Thanks to our membership of the ECHR, all Britain has to do then is attract criminals without families, children, claustrophobia or any specific dietary requirements.

On a more serious note, at no point in any of these proceedings does it appear to have occurred to the lawyers, the judges or the ECHR itself that maybe, just maybe, the human rights of the conned, assaulted, stabbed, raped and murdered should have taken priority over that of their assailants. But then, this is Britain: a country whose far-left government publicly declares the rights of illegal immigrants trump those of the native population, and somehow remains in power without the Palace of Westminster being razed to the ground.

The British public are being taken for fools. None of this nonsense would pass muster if you were caught with your pants down in almost any other country on earth. What to do however? There is a lot of talk about derogating from the ECHR, declaring a national emergency, processing illegals and foreign criminals overseas and, eventually, leaving the ECHR. That, I believe, is Reform UK and Nigel Farage’s plan. I am a little concerned however, that we do not have the time to rerun Brexit.

Here’s what I think we should do instead:

• Declare a state of emergency on day one of a new government.
• Install the Royal Navy in the Channel.
• Tow all invaders back to France, no ifs no buts.
• Grant all illegals a one-way ticket and a month to leave the country, with those refusing indefinitely detained in disused Army barracks, rapid-build prisons or overseas, until such time as they come to their senses.
• Instruct other nations to accept their criminals, or face sanctions / loss of aid.

Certainly, many of our European colleagues will not appreciate this approach. But seriously, what are they going to do – invade us honestly?

Frank Haviland is the author of Banalysis: The Lie Destroying the West and The Frank Report, which you should probably subscribe to.

This piece was first published in The European Conservative and is reproduced by kind permission.

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