A violation of human rights: federations push back on anti-doping investigations proposal [Video]

An FEI proposal to demand information or articles relating to anti-doping investigations is a “violation of human rights” and goes too far, it has been claimed.

In the final draft of rule changes published by the FEI is a proposal that would allow the federation at any point to “make a written demand to an applicable person to provide the FEI and/or the integrity unit with any information, record, article or thing in their possession or control that the FEI reasonably believes may evidence or lead to the discovery of evidence of a non-doping violation”.

The applicable person would have to provide the record or information “immediately, where practical to do so, or within such other time as may be set by the FEI and/or the integrity unit”, and would “waive and forfeit any rights, defences and privileges provided by any law in any jurisdiction to withhold any information, record, article or thing requested”.

Failure to comply, or attempts to …