Brexit could prompt human rights crisis, lawyers warn

The UK's departure from the European Union may go hand in hand with the removal of fundamental rights from British law, they said in a letter in the Observer, leaving its citizens with a similar level of protection to people in Europe's last dictatorship, Belarus.Theresa May has stated in the past that she would like to leave the European Convention on Human Rights — described as “the bedrock of peace in Europe since the Second World War” — but the EU could intervene, the