Europe’s top human rights watchdog sharply criticised France’s law enforcement and jail systems in a report today, saying prisons throughout the country were overcrowded and in a bad state.

EUROPE’S leading human rights body has come out in support of recent calls by the Irish Human Rights Commission for the Irish authorities to search US aircraft landing in the Republic.

ANTI-SOCIAL behaviour orders (Asbos) could breach an individual’s rights, according to Europe’s human rights commissioner.