European countries mull human rights reform

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All 46 countries signed up to the European Convention on Human Rights, including the UK, have given themselves until next May to re-think how it should be applied to immigration cases. Lawyers for eight prisoners who are being held on remand — accused of offences related to Palestine Action — say they are at risk of dying from a hunger strike. The best-selling author Sophie Kinsella has died at the age of fifty-five from brain cancer. And the former French president Nicolas Sarkozy becomes the latest prisoner to publish his memoirs.