Tag: torture
Brazil’s Drug War Is Filling Up Jails Like in the US
Nearly half of all people imprisoned in Brazil’s third most populous state, Rio de ...
Echoing Evangelicals Rio Paralympics Organizers Accuse Indians of Infanticide and Rape
In an official press release, the organizers of the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games have ...
Report on Hundreds of Brazilians Disappeared During Dictatorship Finally Concluded
Testimonies of victims and their families, testimonials of political repression agents and 47,000 photographs ...
Brazil’s Truth Commission Wants Armed Forces to Tell Truth About Torture
Brazil’s National Truth Commission (CNV) wants the Army, Air Force and Navy commands to ...
Brazil Group in Charge of Cleaning the Police Indicted for Murder and Torture
Brazil’s Special Group for Fighting Organized Crime (Gaeco) of the state of Paraná has ...
Brazil Has 1049 Skeletons to ID of Political Prisoners and Death Squad Victims
Brazil’s Human Rights minister Ideli Salvatti announced that the experts hired by the Secretary ...
Lula Readies Truth Committee Bill to Punish Torturers from Brazil’s Dictatorship
Brazil is seriously considering naming a "truth committee" a quarter of a century after ...
Brazil: Two Ex-Cops Get 31 Years in Jail for Torturing Journalists
Two Brazilian former police officers were convicted for being part of the militia that ...
Brazil’s Lula Silences Aides Pushing for Punishment of Dictatorship Torturers
Brazilian President, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, says Brazilians should enshrine the "heroes" who ...
Brazilian Policeman Suspect of Torturing Journalists Surrenders
A Brazilian civilian police inspector who is accused of heading the militia that kidnapped ...
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