Washington, May 11, 2022 (AFP) – The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) will examine the enforced disappearance of ten people in Brazil 30 years ago and the impunity that followed the murder of a human rights defender and another woman. presence reported this Tuesday (10).
In a note, IACHR said ten victims were “abducted by civil and military police, some of them sexually assaulted, killed and dumped in Rio Estrela” in Rio state Magé in 1990.
The police investigation was shelved a few years later due to the expiration of the crime and lack of material evidence as the bodies were never found.
The IACHR, an organ of the Organization of American States (OAS), claims to have forwarded the case to the Court on April 22, whose decisions are binding.
The case also addresses the deaths of human rights activist Edméa da Silva Euzébio and Sheila da Conceição, family members of one of the victims.
They were killed after Edméa Silva testified in court that the police had disappeared.
The IACHR assesses that “the enforced disappearance of victims because it occurred at the hands of state officials is sufficiently recognized” and that “the State’s lack of investigation acted to conceal the perpetrators of the facts”.
The Commission concluded that the state, inter alia, violated the victims’ right to equality and branded them as “criminals” for being young black men with limited economic resources.
source: Noticias
