Light in darkness: a "Center for Justice" in Sweden
Citizens in the Nordic countries are at a disadvantage because the general opinion is that our authorities are models of virtue, dispensing nothing but welfare and practicing the rule of unexceptionable humanitarian law. Groups or organisations fighting for human rights here therefore tend to be run by, or in the pockets of, the authorities themselves and concerned solely with human rights abuses in far away countries, not in our own countries, since such abuses are not supposed to exist here.
Here, however:
Centrum för rättvisa
we have a Center for Justice (Centrum för rättvisa), an organisation of Swedish lawyers whose agenda is individual rights against the state.
CFR is a non-profit organisation whose purpose is to enforce the rights and freedoms protected in the European Convention on Human Rights, the Swedish constitution and statutes. The mission of CFR is primarily to help people who have a legitimate case that involves individual rights and freedoms, and have, among others, taken on cases concerning equal treatment, freedom of association, right of ownership and legal security.
As a Scandinavian I must say it sounds too good to be true.
And here:
European Court requested to review Swedish "Big Brother" snooping law
is the English version of an article stating that the center is prepared to fight in the European Court of Human Rights against newly passed legislation authorising the Swedish state to conduct all-pervading surveillance in the style of DDR. The case concerns a violation of Article 8 (everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence). This is particularly important to victims of the child protection authorities, since violation of Article 8 is central in most child protection cases.