Amnesty International report provides information on police violence and disrespect for basic rights in the country
Police violence, the population’s difficulty in accessing basic rights, delays in demarcating indigenous lands and titling quilombola territories are some of the aspects that the NGO Amnesty International rescued to describe Brazil in the report “The State of Human Rights in the World”, released this Wednesday (April 24, 2024). The country recorded more than 3.4 million possible human rights violations in 2023.
The document contains analyzes of 156 countries and dedicates around 5 pages to Brazil. At the beginning of the chapter on the country, it is highlighted that the president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) assumed its 3rd term and soon faced a “attempted coup d’état”which culminated in the conviction of 30 people by December 2023. Here is The complete of the document (PDF – 3 MB).
the text highlights the following data:
- murder of 394 people in police operations;
- registration of 3,873 possible violations against transgender people by the National Human Rights Ombudsman from January to October 2023. The number in 10 months was higher than the annual total in 2022, when there were 3,309 registrations;
- death of at least 3 human rights activists per month in Brazil from 2020 to 2023; It is
- death of 19 women from unsafe abortions.
Until March this year, the STF (Supreme Federal Court) had sentenced 130 people for involvement in the acts of January 8th, held responsible for crimes such as criminal association, violent abolition of the Democratic Rule of Law and deterioration of listed heritage.
The organization also says that Lula’s main opponent, former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL), became ineligible for 8 years, until 2030, by decision of the TSE (Superior Electoral Court). The court even denied the appeal to which Bolsonaro was entitled, maintaining its understanding of the issue.
The section dealing with Brazil was subdivided into:
- economic, social and cultural rights;
- excessive use of force;
- impunity;
- people defending human rights;
- right to a healthy environment;
- rights of indigenous peoples;
- sexual and gender-based violence; It is
- sexual and reproductive rights.
Amnesty recalled recent climate events that affected the population of several states, such as São Paulo, Acre, Maranhão and Pará, as well as Manaus, with tens of thousands of people affected. At the case of Acrethe contingent reached 32 thousand people, according to the report.
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Another problem still open, declares the organization, is the total of 394 people killed during police actions in Bahiaat the Rio de Janeiro and in São Paulo – where the operations were carried out Shield It is Summer, in response to the death of police officers on the coast of São Paulo. In the document, only deaths from the period from July to September 2023 were mentioned, which assumes that the number is even higher and the situation more serious.
The conduct of the police officers who worked in operations Escudo and Verão, which covered Baixada Santista, was questioned numerous times. One of the organizations that previously demanded explanations from the authorities was the Human Rights Watch. O CNDH (National Council for Human Rights) also warned of abuses, highlighting, after sending a delegation that collected statements from people linked to the victims, that security agents also carried out torture sessions.
“Police interventions continued to cause the deaths of children and adolescents. On August 7, 13-year-old Thiago Menezes was unlawfully killed by police while riding a motorcycle. On September 4, the Court of Justice of the State of Rio de Janeiro ordered the preventive detention of 4 police officers involved in the homicide. On August 12, 5-year-old Eloah Passos was hit by a stray bullet while playing indoors. On August 16, 3-year-old Heloísa Santos died after being shot by a police officer while she was in a car with her family“, states the NGO in another part of the report.
The set of facts that the organization records about cases of police impunity is also classified as worrying. “Illegal use of force by police continued without being quickly or effectively investigated. The forced disappearance of Davi Fiuza, 16, during a police raid in Salvador, Bahia, in 2014, remained unsolved. Three police officers indicted for the murder of activist Pedro Henrique Cruz in 2018 in Tucano, also in Bahia, had not yet been brought to trial, and his mother, Ana Maria, continued to suffer threats and intimidation“, says Amnesty.
The organization sent representatives to a meeting with the Attorney General of the Public Ministry of Bahia, Pedro Maia, on April 16, to discuss the execution of activist Pedro Henrique Santos Cruz, who campaigned against police violence in the state.
With information from Agência Brasil.
