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It's nice to know this also applies to the UK even after Brexit (still a member of the ECHR).

The Tories have been talking about leaving the ECHR for years now.

They should've left, obviously, not sure what they've been doing with an 80 seat majority. But a silver lining is Cameron/May's "Snoopers' Charter" is utterly dead now.

Azerbaijan is in the ECHR too; doesn't stop them from imprisoning political dissidents, employing slave labor, committing war crimes, attacking other ECHR members, or performing ethnic cleansing.

Well yes, generally the ECHR has no powers to compel compliance.

But ECHR rulings are binding to EU members (and the the various organs of the EU including the ECJ have way to enforce them).

ECHR are also still binding in the UK because legislation that says otherwise hasn't been passed yet.

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