UK to be put under UNCHR spotlight

Jon Bright (London, OK): The UK is one of sixteen countries taking part in the "First Universal Periodic Review" being run by the UN Commission for Human Rights. The video for the entire event can be viewed archived here and live here - as I write a significant number of well dressed people are filing calmly into a large oval hall, as a balding chair talks slowly about time management issues. According to the timetable (opens pdf), the UK's turn to be reviewed comes on Thursday morning. It's not going to be gripping TV, in all honesty, but it could form an important part of the current debate on UK liberty: praise for the UK's record would be a fillip for the government, whilst criticism would be a PR boon for those trying to highlight damage being done to civil liberties. How many of Henry Porter's List of Liberties Lost will be brought up?