The government’s response to COVID-19 exposed gaps in the rights to health and housing. Discrimination against Roma continued. A man died following a beating in border police custody. Prosecutions and convictions for gender-based violence remained low.

The proposed amendment to Article 33 of the Portuguese Constitution has been abandoned. Amnesty International welcomes this news and thanks all members of the UA Network.

The Portuguese Parliament is to consider imminently an amendment to the Constitution which would allow the extradition of any person for crimes which carry the death penalty under the law of the requesting state.