How the UK coronavirus lockdown is affecting your human rights

Analysis: Six articles of the European Convention on Human Rights are broken by restrictions - but violations can be justified to prevent deaths - writes

Police patrol parks to stop people breaching restrictions (Getty)

The coronavirus lockdown has been described as “the most significant and blanket interference with individual liberty in modern times” in a parliamentary report.

The document named six articles of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) that can be violated by the unprecedented restrictions placed on the British public.

They include the freedoms of assembly and association, the right to respect for privacy and family life, freedom of religion and the right to liberty.