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Measures to stem the rate of coronavirus infection in Italy, including harsh home quarantines, are based only on decrees, not on laws, even though the penalties for breaching them include prison sentences.
Although many people seem to support the idea of relinquishing some rights to protect public health, the Italian government must ensure that the systems are strong enough to not let these changes become permanent.
Antigone has released its sixteenth annual report, which explores the situation in Italian correctional facilities during 2019 and the first months of 2020.
Rights International Spain and the Implementation Team of the International Decade for People of African Descent in Spain have published a report on racism and xenophobia during the COVID-19 state of alarm in Spain.
Liberties members in 9 EU countries filed Freedom of Information requests to their national authorities regarding the new contact-tracing, symptom-tracking and quarantine-enforcing applications introduced to control the spread of Covid-19.
The Italian government has introduced a number of changes to the way that courts are administered, including postponements and video links. These amendments are having a detrimental effect of defendants and detainees and must be strictly temporary.