02/04/2020 (Agence Europe) – Faced with the threat of the spread of COVID-19 in prisons, “prisoners with political backgrounds, such as the Catalan politicians convicted for their role in the unconstitutional referendum of October 2017 or the Turkish parliamentarians, mayors and other politicians imprisoned for speeches made in the exercise of their mandate” should be released or “non-custodial sanctions” should be applied, as is the case in many countries for “non-violent...