The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Dunja Mijatović, called on all member countries to "review the situation of rejected asylum seekers and irregular migrants in immigration detention and to release them to the maximum extent possible", in a statement issued on Thursday 26 March.
In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is unclear when the returns of migrants subject to the so-called Dublin Regulation will be possible, she said, recalling that "under human rights law,...