Buskers seek rights
NZPA-AAP London Two street performers, who want busking legalised in England, plan to take their fight to the United Nations Centre for Human Rights in Geneva. Mike Kay and Jeremy Helm announced their move after their second appeal to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg
was rejected, the “Evening Standard” has reported. The two men, who live off the proceeds of busking, claim they are treated as common criminals. They argued unsuccessfully in Strasbourg that English law constituted a denial of the freedom of expression guaranteed by the European Convention on
Human Rights. “We are going to Geneva with a different case,” said Kay. “We’re going to focus on the broader issues, the plight of buskers and travelling minstrels. “We want to get an itinerant charter, not only for buskers, stating that it is a human right to be itinerant.”
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Press, 25 July 1984, Page 12
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