Tag: justice
25 per 100,000: Brazil’s Per-Capita Homicide Rate Is Three Times the World Average
Earlier this year, in September, the United Nations released a report on Brazilian arbitrary, ...
Brazil: After 6 Years Killer of TV Reporter Gets Special Release for Good Behavior
Judicial authorities from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, decided to put convicted murderer Claudino "Xuxa" ...
The Seemingly Futile Battle of Brazil Against Impunity
For the Brazilian people justice is generally slow or lacking. Throughout the years there ...
13-Year-Old Case: Brazil Urged to Find Journalist’s Murderer
The murder of a Brazilian journalist still unpunished 13 years after it was committed ...
Brazilian Journalist Jailed for Criticizing Judge
Brazilian journalist Ana Elizabeth Perez Baptista Prata, better known as Beth Prata, was detained ...
High-Stakes Corruption Case in Brazil Sets Off a Judiciary Civil War
When Opportunity Bank owner Daniel Dantas, mega investor Naji Nahas and former mayor of ...
The Rich Also Get Arrested in Brazil, But Only the Poor Go to Jail
I have friends who feel proud that they were handcuffed because of their ideas. ...
Brazil’s Supreme Court Message: We’d Better Learn to Live with Corruption
Just when the AMB (Brazilian Magistrate Association) thought that Brazil has finally decided to ...
Brazilian Justice Can’t Tell News Reporting from Propaganda
A Brazilian court fined the newspaper Agosto, on June 5, US$ 13,400 for publishing ...
Brazilian Woman Maimed by Husband Gets Little Justice 25 Years Later
The city of Fortaleza, in the state of Ceará, northeastearn Brazil; the year is ...
