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March 26, 2020 Dispatches

Nigerian Security Forces to Enforce Social Distancing

Law Enforcement Response to COVID-19 Should Respect Human Rights

A member of the Nigerian army performs a temperature check on a visitor at the entrance of the Nigerian Army Hospital in the Yaba area of Lagos, Nigeria, February 28, 2020.
March 26, 2020 News Release

UK: COVID-19 Law Puts Rights of People with Disabilities at Risk

Scrutiny Needed to Ensure Rights of People with Disabilities, Older Persons

A man wears a protective face mask as he drives a mobility scooter in central Leeds on the morning of March 21, 2020.
March 25, 2020 News Release

Thailand: COVID-19 Clampdown on Free Speech

Critic Arrested, State of Emergency Censorship Threatened

Thai Prime Minister Gen. Prayut Chan-Ocha delivers a televised speech in Bangkok, Thailand, March 24, 2020.
March 25, 2020 Dispatches

Moscow Silently Expands Surveillance of Citizens

COVID-19 Provides Excuse to Extend; New Monitoring Technology

Two surveillance camera are seen in a street in Moscow, Russia
March 25, 2020 Dispatches

Prominent Congolese Lawyer Falls Victim to Covid-19

Human Rights Defender Joseph Mukendi Dies Aged 73

Jean-Joseph Mukendi wa Mulumba
March 25, 2020 Dispatches

Pakistan Official Supports Transgender Community Amid COVID-19

Societal Discrimination Compounds Health Risks

Transgender people wearing face masks as a precaution against COVID-19 take selfies at a park in Peshawar, Pakistan, March 20, 2020.
March 25, 2020 News Release

Nigeria: COVID-19 Cases On the Rise

Ensure Emergency Preparedness for Displaced, Vulnerable People

A securityman administers sanitiser to a visitor to a state hospital in Lagos, on February 28, 2020.
March 24, 2020 News Release

Cambodia: COVID-19 Clampdown on Free Speech

Cease Arrests, Detention of Outspoken Opposition Activists, Others

A policeman (center) and others wear face masks as a preventive measure against COVID-19, at a market in Phnom Penh on March 17, 2020.
March 24, 2020 News Release

Malaysia: Migrants, Stateless at Extra Risk from Virus

Ensure All Have Access to Health Care Without Discrimination

A health worker in a protective suit gestures in a tent erected to test for the new coronavirus at a clinic in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, March 24, 2020.
March 24, 2020 Dispatches

Ohio, Texas Use COVID-19 to Stop Abortions

Abortion Access an Essential Component of Health Care

An activist seen holding a placard that reads, "protect safe, legal abortion" during a Stop the Bans rally in Dayton, Ohio, May 19, 2019.
March 24, 2020 Dispatches

Russia’s Pretrial Prisons Vulnerable as COVID-19 Spreads

Overcrowding Conditions in Detention Facilities Leave Prison Population at Serious Risk

A view of Butyrka, one of Moscow’s pretrial detention facilities, 2020.
March 24, 2020 Dispatches

COVID-19 Threatens South Sudan’s At-Risk Populations

Government Measures Should Address Those Displaced, Detained

Residents of the Mangateen camp for the internally-displaced line up to get water from a borehole, on the outskirts of the capital Juba, South Sudan, January 22, 2019.
March 24, 2020 Report

Lebanon: COVID-19 Worsens Medical Supply Crisis

Protect Health Workers, Address Dollar Shortage

Lebanese nurses at a ward where the first case of coronavirus in the country was being treated, at the Rafik Hariri University Hospital in the southern outskirts of Beirut, on February 22, 2020.
March 23, 2020 Dispatches

Kyrgyzstan’s Coronavirus Response Should Let Activist Go Free

Unjust Detention of Azimjon Askarov Puts His Health at Risk

Ethnic Uzbek journalist Azimzhan Askarov, who was arbitrarily arrested, tortured, convicted after an unfair trial and jailed for life looks through metal bars during hearings at the Bishkek regional court, Kyrgyzstan.
March 23, 2020 Dispatches

Turkey Should Protect All Prisoners from Pandemic

Early Release Program Should Seek to Lower Threat of Coronavirus for All Prisoners

Silivri Prison, Istanbul.

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