All people have rights by virtue of being human, but for MEPs clearly some people are more human than others. The #EU approach to human rights is distorted beyond recognition. Every month we hunt for useful victims to demonise rivals, while victims we create are never mentioned. | Clare Daly

While MEPs rightly condemn the appalling imprisonment by Russian authorities of journalist, and critic of the attack on Ukraine, Vladimir Kara-Murza, the European Parliament has never mentioned similar repression against Julian #Assange, Pablo Gonzalez or a host of others. The inconsistent application of justice is not justice. By failing to be consistent and calling out repression by the United States, the West gives Russia illegitimate rhetorical justification for its own repression of journal