Shami Chakrabarti is a regular guest on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme, I would hazard a guess that she may even be the most regular guest. Oddly she has not been asked on the programme this week to explain why she sat on the London School of Economics' Council whilst the LSE happily took money from the Libyan regime of Colonel Gaddafi. Have the BBC asked Shami Chakrabarti to explain this position and how she reconciled it with her usual standpoints on human rights and civil liberties? Why are Libyans not deserving of the same human rights and civil liberties as the British?
Liberty partly describe Shami Chakrabarti thus:
An unbiased news organisation would ask these questions of one of its frequent guests, that the BBC have not done so speaks volumes.
Liberty partly describe Shami Chakrabarti thus:
'Since becoming Liberty’s Director she has written, spoken and broadcast widely on the importance of the post-WW2 human rights framework as an essential component of democratic society.'If human rights are that essential a component of democratic society why was she happy for the LSE to take money from Colonel Gaddafi's Libya and allow Saif Gaddafi to speak at the LSE? Was Shami Chakrabarti ignorant of the state of human rights in Libya or did she not care?
An unbiased news organisation would ask these questions of one of its frequent guests, that the BBC have not done so speaks volumes.
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Shami Chakrabarti has hair-trigger sensitivity to human rights issues in the UK; but appears to have ignored gross violations of human rights by LSE's Libyan paymasters. Her position as head of Liberty is untenable.
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