The Strasbourg-based Council of Europe is the continent\u2019s leading human rights organization, and oversees the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). <\/p>\n
In 2019, Jagland opposed Russia\u2019s potential withdrawal <\/a>from the body amid disputes over Ukraine\u2019s Crimea, warning it would be a \u201chuge setback\u201d for human rights by depriving 144 million Russians of the right to seek legal redress at the ECHR.<\/p>\n The Epstein emails, among the thousands of pages of documents released Wednesday <\/a>by the U.S. House Oversight Committee, provide new insight into the convicted sex offender\u2019s extensive network of political and business contacts, and his apparent efforts to influence or advise foreign governments during Donald Trump\u2019s first term as U.S. president.<\/p>\n In some messages, Epstein claimed<\/a> he had been advising Russian officials on better understanding Trump\u2019s approach to diplomacy and negotiation.<\/p>\n The emails add to evidence illustrating Epstein\u2019s attempts to maintain access to international political figures well after his 2008 conviction <\/a>for soliciting an underage girl for prostitution until shortly before his 2019 arrest<\/a> on sex-trafficking charges.<\/p>\n White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said during a briefing Wednesday that the broader set of emails \u201cprove absolutely nothing other than President Trump did nothing wrong\u201d \u2014 while Trump accused the opposition Democrats of \u201ctrying to bring up the Jeffrey Epstein hoax\u201d to \u201cdeflect on how badly they\u2019ve done on the Shutdown.\u201d<\/p>\n This story has been updated with a comment from Thorbj\u00f8rn Jagland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Strasbourg-based Council of Europe is the continent\u2019s leading human rights organization, and oversees the European Court of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[748,30,31,32,393,4884,4582,28981,12,1144,1115,332,712,26961,180365,16,15,49,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-567674","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-courts","10":"tag-democracy","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-human-rights","15":"tag-human-trafficking","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-northern-ireland","18":"tag-norway","19":"tag-russia","20":"tag-scotland","21":"tag-sexual-harassment","22":"tag-thorbjorn-jagland","23":"tag-uk","24":"tag-united-kingdom","25":"tag-united-states","26":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115542558301749627","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}