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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12491

21 May 2020
Contents Publication in full By article 33 / 42
NEWS BRIEFS / Human rights
MEPs and Sakharov Prize winners call for release of prisoners of conscience and human rights activists

20/05/2020 (Agence Europe)In an open letter published on Tuesday 19 May, 58 MEPs and 14 Sakharov Prize winners called for the release of all prisoners of conscience and human rights defenders due to the Covid-19 pandemic. “We strongly call upon all governments to release urgently every person detained without sufficient legal basis, including human rights defenders and others detained simply for expressing critical or dissenting views”, they said, recalling that people deprived of...

Contents

SECTORAL POLICIES
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
EU RESPONSE TO COVID-19
EXTERNAL ACTION
COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU
INSTITUTIONAL
COUNCIL OF EUROPE
NEWS BRIEFS
CALENDAR
CALENDAR EXTRA