Human rights lawyer Amal Clooney resigned Friday from her position as the United Kingdom’s Special Envoy for Freedom of the Press, saying in her resignation letter that she “Disturbed by the government’s “efforts to break international law.”

Clooney in She sent her letter to the British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, She said she found it “regrettable” that Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced a plan to bypass Britain’s international obligations under the Brexit agreement between the European Union and the United Kingdom, known as “Brexit”.

“I was horrified to learn that the government intends to pass legislation – the Internal Market Law – which, with the government’s own admission, would” violate international law “if enacted,” she said.

“Although the government suggested that the violation of international law would be” specific and limited, “it is regrettable that the United Kingdom has spoken of its intention to violate an international treaty signed by the Prime Minister less than a year ago, he added.

Clooney, who is married to actor George Clooney, said she still firmly believed in “the importance of the UK and Canada-led media freedom campaign,” but made it clear that it was “now untenable that, as a special envoy, he urged other nations to honor commitments.” International law and its enforcement, while the UK declares that it does not intend to do so on its own. ”

Her resignation comes after Richard Kane, the British government’s legal official for Scotland, left office on Wednesday, saying he had found her. It becomes increasingly difficult to reconcile his obligations as a lawyer with the provisions of the Internal Market Law, According to BBC News.

Last week, the government’s top attorney, Jonathan Jones, Step aside Ministers have also prepared the bill for publication.

BBC News reported On Friday, the European Union called on the British government to remove sections of the legislation that would give the United Kingdom the power to bypass agreements on the movement of goods between Northern Ireland and Britain, as well as subsidies to companies in Northern Ireland.