"Golinger has systematically attacked defenders of human rights and freedom of expression by presenting them as puppets of Washington, something far from the truth," said Andrés Cañizález, who came under her scrutiny for heading a press freedom group that received financing from the National Endowment for Democracy.
"An attack on human rights," Mr. Gbagbo's foreign minister, Alcide Djédjé, called it last week, adding angrily that it was "one of the greatest scandals of the century".
Amnesty International reports that killings by the security forces have increased and says a "wave of attacks" against defenders of human rights is under way.Frank La Rue, who heads a presidential commission on human rights, acknowledges the gravity of the situation.
Andrew Mitchell bleats about his treatment at the hands of the police with no one to defend him ("If it happened in Ethiopia, you'd have the British press attacking the lack of human rights there," he says, absurdly).
In response Bob Crow, RMT's general secretary, said: "Of course David Cameron wants to attack the most basic of human rights of ordinary working people.
The prime minister's conference speech attacked the European court of human rights in Strasbourg.
It ranges from physical assaults on journalists who publish exposes of corruption online to cyber-attacks on the websites of human rights groups and prosecution of webmasters for comments that other users post on their platform.
While the justice secretary, Michael Gove, has implied the bill may not be as radical as originally envisaged, others fear that a vote to remain within the EU on 23 June could force Downing Street to appease disappointed Brexiters with a more substantial attack on the European court of human rights in Strasbourg.
