A study by the European Center for Law and Justice in Strasbourg has revealed several conflicts of interest between judges at the European Court of Human Rights and NGOs funded by George Soros.
The study has found that, out of the 100 judges who have served on the bench of the European Court of Human Rights in the period 2009-2019, nearly a quarter have strong links to George Soros' Open Society Foundation or to NGOs like Amnesty International and others which are funded by it.
The report also covers other human rights officers, such as the commissioner for human rights at the Council of Europe from 2012-2018, who does not sit as a judge but who was for years a salaried activist of the Open Society Foundation in Latvia and who has used his official position to campaign against the so-called "Anti-Soros" legislation in Hungary.
There would not be anything wrong with judges having exercised a salaried activity for an NGO prior to becoming a judge if these same organizations were not themselves active as parties who bring cases to the ECHR, either as applicants themselves, as lawyers for applicants, or as third parties giving supposedly expert evidence, and if those judges did not then hear those cases.
The report's worst finding is that in 88 cases judges sat on the bench ruling on cases brought to the court by NGOs they had previously worked for, without declaring a conflict of interest and without withdrawing from hearing the cases In one case, ruled on in 2018, 10 out of the 14 NGOs that had brought the case were funded by the Open Society Foundation, while six out of the 17 judges who heard the case themselves had links to the same Soros-funded group.
The judges' refusal to withdraw is a disgraceful professional failing which shows that Europe's supreme human rights body is not independent but is instead part of veritable "Human rights industry" - a pyramid of money and a tight network of professional relationships, at the top of which sits George Soros with his billions.
His millions flood these small, poor countries and they in turn appoint judges to the ECHR which rules on human rights issues for the 47 member states of the Council of Europe.
http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2020/february/26/credibility-of-european-court-of-human-rights-lies-in-ruins-after-judges-links-to-soros-revealed/
The study has found that, out of the 100 judges who have served on the bench of the European Court of Human Rights in the period 2009-2019, nearly a quarter have strong links to George Soros' Open Society Foundation or to NGOs like Amnesty International and others which are funded by it.
The report also covers other human rights officers, such as the commissioner for human rights at the Council of Europe from 2012-2018, who does not sit as a judge but who was for years a salaried activist of the Open Society Foundation in Latvia and who has used his official position to campaign against the so-called "Anti-Soros" legislation in Hungary.
There would not be anything wrong with judges having exercised a salaried activity for an NGO prior to becoming a judge if these same organizations were not themselves active as parties who bring cases to the ECHR, either as applicants themselves, as lawyers for applicants, or as third parties giving supposedly expert evidence, and if those judges did not then hear those cases.
The report's worst finding is that in 88 cases judges sat on the bench ruling on cases brought to the court by NGOs they had previously worked for, without declaring a conflict of interest and without withdrawing from hearing the cases In one case, ruled on in 2018, 10 out of the 14 NGOs that had brought the case were funded by the Open Society Foundation, while six out of the 17 judges who heard the case themselves had links to the same Soros-funded group.
The judges' refusal to withdraw is a disgraceful professional failing which shows that Europe's supreme human rights body is not independent but is instead part of veritable "Human rights industry" - a pyramid of money and a tight network of professional relationships, at the top of which sits George Soros with his billions.
His millions flood these small, poor countries and they in turn appoint judges to the ECHR which rules on human rights issues for the 47 member states of the Council of Europe.
http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2020/february/26/credibility-of-european-court-of-human-rights-lies-in-ruins-after-judges-links-to-soros-revealed/
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