“Now, more than ever, governments should release every person detained without sufficient legal basis, including political prisoners and others detained simply for expressing critical or dissenting views,” United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet stressed. Bachelet said COVID-19 has begun to strike prisons, jails and immigration detention centers, as well as residential […]
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