Wednesday 9 April 2014

FN Mayor evicts human rights group in Pas- de - Calais

THE FRONT National mayor of Henin-Beaumont, Pas-de-Calais, has thrown the town’s League of Human Rights (LDH) out of its offices, accusing the organisation of “interfering in municipal life”.

France Info reported that mayor Steeve Briois also said that the organisation was “squatting” as it had not signed a lease on its offices, from where it had operated rent-free for 10 years.

The president of the local association said that they would find other premises and promised that the LDH would “not give up. We will not desert the field or abandon the fight”.

The LDH was founded in 1898, at the height of the notorious Dreyfus Affair that divided political society in France between 1894 and 1906.

Its declared objective is to observe and defend the rights of man in all spheres of public life in the French Republic. It is a member of the International Federation of Human Rights Leagues and lists a Nobel Peace Prize winner as one of its past presidents. - See more at The Connexion.

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