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Report: Care homes policies violated human rights in Belgium

by Samuel Petrequin
| November 15, 2020 3:03 PM

BRUSSELS (AP) — Amnesty International said Belgium authorities “abandoned” thousands of elderly people who died in nursing homes during the coronavirus pandemic following an investigation published Monday going through a series of inadequacies described by the group as “human rights violations."

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