A/HRC/45/13 11. On 29 November 2019, the Working Group, together with other special procedure mechanisms, issued a press release deploring the lack of significant progress in the implementation of the judgment issued by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in the case of Radilla Pacheco v. Mexico. 12. On 20 December 2019, the Working Group, together with other special procedure mechanisms, issued a press release calling on the Iranian authorities to release all individuals arbitrarily detained and mistreated during protests, and expressed concerns over the hundreds of people who had been killed. 13. On 26 December 2019, the Working Group, together with other special procedure mechanisms, issued a press release expressing alarm at the situation of Tashpolat Tiyip, a Chinese academic of Uighur origin and former president of Xinjiang University, detained at an unknown location in China. 14. On 30 January 2020, the Working Group, together with other special procedure mechanisms, issued a press release commending Ireland and Turkey for their cooperative and effective engagement ensuring the return of Lisa Smith and her infant child to Ireland in December. 15. On 13 February 2020, the Working Group, together with other special procedure mechanisms, issued a press release urging the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to repatriate 11 individuals who were forcibly disappeared 50 years ago after their domestic flight in the Republic of Korea was hijacked. 16. On 6 March 2020, the Working Group joined the Working Group on discrimination against women and girls, in a press release issued ahead of the International Women’s Day on 8 March, calling on men around the world to be a part of movements for gender equality and become women’s human rights defenders.48 17. On 16 March 2020, the Working Group, together with other special procedure mechanisms, issued a press release urging States to avoid overreach of security measures in their response to the coronavirus outbreak and reminding them that emergency powers should not be used to quash dissent.49 18. On 23 March 2020, the Working Group, together with other special procedure mechanisms, issued a press release expressing their grave concern about the welfare of three human rights defenders who were forcibly disappeared by the Chinese authorities shortly after their arrest in December 2019.50 19. On 26 March 2020, the Working Group, together with other special procedure mechanisms, issued a press release stressing that the COVID-19 crisis cannot be solved with public health and emergency measures only, and that all other human rights must be addressed too.51 20. On 27 March 2020, the Working Group, together with other special procedure mechanisms, joined the call by the Independent Expert on the enjoyment of all human rights by older persons, to exercise solidarity and better protect older persons who are bearing the lion’s share of the COVID-19 pandemic.52 21. On 9 April 2020, the Working Group, together with other special procedure mechanisms, endorsed a press release issued by the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, alerting that tougher regulations under Egypt’s sweeping anti-terrorism law further erode fundamental human rights and could result in more arbitrary detentions, enforced 48 49 50 51 52 https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=25672&LangID=E. https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=25722&LangID=E. https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=25735&LangID=E. https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=25748&LangID=E. https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=25748&LangID=E. 51