Tag: police

Amnesty Condemns Killings of Police in Brazil and Warns Against Retaliation

Amnesty International released a note saying the it totally repudiates the recent wave of ...

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Newsroom

Amnesty Uses Brazil Violence to Promote Gun Control in the World

During the course of 2006, Amnesty International plans to present its report entitled "They ...

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Paulo Montoia

Brazil Rebuffs Amnesty and Says It’s on the Right Path

The national secretary of Public Safety in the Ministry of Justice, Luiz Fernando Corrêa, ...

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Irene Lôbo

Brazil’s Prison Population Almost Doubles in 8 Years. It’s World’s Highest Rate.

The situation of the Rio Interstate Police (Polinter), a police precinct that agglomerates prisoners ...

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Daisy Nascimento

Brazil’s Inhumanity: Jean Charles Is a Hero, Victims of Brazilian Police Are Nobodies

Jean Charles de Menezes has been buried with all his fellow citizens and politicians’ ...

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Alberto Dines

Brazil Buries Carlos, 11. Another Victim of a Killer Police

At noon, beside a putrid canal in Rio’s Vila do João shantytown, half a ...

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Tom Phillips

Brazil: In Morrinho the War Never Ends

It’s midmorning in Morrinho. Three figures peer down from a concrete rooftop at the ...

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Tom Phillips