PACE hearing on Julian Assange's detention and conviction and their chilling effects on human rights
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Not to sound like an old Wehrmacht soldier, but it comes down to natural law and natural rights. Those are intrinsic. Human rights, civil rights - those are own to interpretation and enforcement (or lack thereof).
Right to exist. To protect and defend. Life. Liberty. Property. Pursuit of happiness.
You violate those of another without cause, you risk having your natural rights snuffed out.
And that is as it should be.
Natural law and natural rights are irrelevant, because it comes down to a moral belief system. Where those rights aren't recognized, they don't exist in the same way any other rights don't exist.
Civil and human rights are down to interpretation, correct -- but are ideally intended to translate that belief of natural rights into something more widely recognizable and enforceable.