The president of the Bar Association, Luís Menezes Leitão, considered this Saturday that the temporary requisition decreed by the Government of the tourist complex Zmar, in Odemira (Beja), due to the covid-19, "may constitute an injury to human rights".
The Bar Association (OA), in a statement sent to the Lusa agency, revealed that the president, “in the face of news coming to the public” regarding the requisition of the undertaking, decided to “request the intervention of the Human Rights Commission” of the OA itself.
The decision is due to the fact that the Government order, on Friday, determined “the temporary requisition, for reasons of urgency and public and national interest, of all the properties and the rights inherent to them” that make up the ZMar Eco Experience, which "may involve houses of its own and even first homes".
This request from Zmar, to accommodate people in “mandatory confinement” or allow their “prophylactic isolation” determined by the health authority, arises within the scope of the sanitary fence decreed by the Government in the parishes of São Teotónio and Almograve, in the municipality of Odemira, due to the high incidence of cases of covid-19, which took effect on Friday.
However, the president of OA considers that "the requisition, even if temporary, of housing, forcing it to be vacated by the owners to allow their occupation by third parties", may "constitute an injury to human rights".
Thus, the subject, "must be the subject of consideration by the Order's Human Rights Commission", is referred to in the statement.
“As soon as the state of emergency is lifted, and therefore citizens' rights, freedoms and guarantees are no longer suspended”, homeowners in Zmar “have the same rights to be protected against arbitrary state interventions on your property and in your family home ”, stressed OA.