Originally Posted by
CyBeR
You're not wrong, but that doesn't make it any less insane. Being able to leave a country (including one's own) is literally a universal human right (article 13) that is being violated here.
On the face of it, it is neither more nor less of a curb to a fundamental right than preventing people from leaving their home 23 hours a day when they have committed no crime, forcibly closing some categories shops, preventing people from meeting with those outside of their household or obliging them to be injected.
The “violation of basic human rights” argument has thus logically been mentioned many times and in many countries, and courts all over the world have been asked to rules on such complaints. But as the op rightly mentions, there are specific provisions in national, European (ECHR) and international law that specify when curbs to those basic freedoms can be imposed, and whilst not all court cases against Covid restrictions have necessarily been unsuccessful, the immense majority has on those very grounds, including, to my knowledge, all those started on measures restricting international outbound travel. As mentioned, whether this is “right” or “wrong” belongs more to OMNI, but at any rate, the legal landscape does not give much hope to those who’d like vindication on the grounds of human rights here.