In the context of the exponential growth of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the President of the European Parliament has announced a number of measures to contain the spread of the epidemic and to safeguard Parliament's core activities.
On 2 July 2020, the Conference of Presidents updated the EP's calendar of activities.
Core activities are reduced, but maintained to ensure that the institution's legislative, budgetary, scrutiny functions together with urgent matters in the field of human rights and democracy, are continued.
The next meeting of the Subcommittee on Human Rights is scheduled to take place on 28 October 2020, from 09:00 - 11:00, from 11:30 - 12:30 and from 16:45 - 18:45. (via videoconference).
"I am seriously concerned at the wave of arrests targeting journalists in Bangladesh, including cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore, on the grounds of the Digital Security Law of 2018, which can be used to unduly restrict freedom of expression and the freedom of media.
Ahmed Kabir Kishore was arrested in early May 2020 and charged with spreading rumours and misinformation following the publication of a series of press cartoons criticising the management of the COVID-19 pandemic in his country.
In the context of the exponential growth of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the President of the European Parliament has announced a number of measures to contain the spread of the epidemic and to safeguard Parliament's core activities.
On 2 July 2020, the Conference of Presidents updated the EP's calendar of activities.
Core activities are reduced, but maintained to ensure that the institution's legislative, budgetary, scrutiny functions together with urgent matters in the field of human rights and democracy, are continued.
The next meetings of the Subcommittee on Human Rights are scheduled to take place on 15 October 2020, from 13:45-15:15, and on 16 October 2020, from 9:00-11:00.