Another 260 judicial complaints against Portuguese State filed with European Court of Human Rights
Another 260 complaints against justice meted out in Portugal were filed with the European Court of Human Rights last year. Bearing in mind these complaints can only be lodged once
75% of Portugal’s ‘Covid hospital patients’ admitted for other reasons
A television interview with virologist Pedro Simas last night revealed that 75% of people admitted to hospitals and classified in official bulletins as suffering from Covid were actually admitted for
303 deaths in Portuguese prisons in last five years
The last five years have seen 303 deaths in Portuguese prisons, a number of them avoidable. Prison guard syndicate Carlos Sousa has explained that a new drug, K44, is being
New rules for funerals
After almost a year in which funerals were allowed to go ahead with open caskets (if relatives so requested) DGS health chiefs have issued new rules to the effect that
State ordered to pay compensation over ‘another abuse’ by SEF at Lisbon airport
Another situation of abuse by SEF inspectors has found in favour of the victim. This time it was a security guard with Prossegur ‘detained abusively’ for four hours at Lisbon
Manuel Pinho fails to be released from house arrest, but moves locations
Failing to be freed from house arrest, former economy minister Manuel Pinho has succeeded at least in being able to change the venue. He is moving from Albufeira, in the
Lagos’ São Gonçalo hospital becomes ‘exclusively’ available to SNS public health service
Lagos’ formerly private São Gonçalo hospital has from today become integrated within the Algarve chain of State-run hospitals (CHUA, standing for Centro Hospitalar Universitário do Algarve). The move opens up
New legal challenge: Father-of-three gets himself arrested to question Portugal’s State of Calamity
In another legal challenge prompted by rules brought in in the name of the pandemic, a 41-year-old father of three has become the first foreigner in Portugal to get himself
EU agrees to “do away with tests and quarantines for citizens with Covid Digital Certificates”
Even though it is well-accepted now that the fully-jabbed (and boosted) can transmit the virus, and become infected, Member States of the EU today have “agreed that anyone with a
Over a million in isolation as Portugal five days from election
Over a million people are in isolation as a result of testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 as Portugal is just five days from legislative elections. The ‘plan’ is that this vast