Even In A State Of Emergency Human Rights Must Be Respected!

(Doctors love their children too)

The prosecutor's office is investigating doctors from St. Mina Hospital in Plovdiv, a hospital designated by the Bulgarian Crisis Headquarters to receive patients with suspected COVID-19. In an open letter sent to the Minister of Health, the doctors at St. Mina stated that they have not been instructed to implement the protocol for the admission and treatment of patients with COVID-19, and that the hospital did not have the necessary personal protective equipment to work with such patients.

Human rights during a state of emergency

Bulgaria is in a state of emergency for the first time since World War II. There are almost no lawyers still alive from that time to share their experience of how the state of emergency affects our human rights. Moreover, there are almost no lawyers who can even imagine the extent to which a state of emergency affects those rights. At most, perhaps some of us remember the heated debate on the adoption