{"id":22346,"date":"2020-08-04T14:58:12","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T14:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/?post_type=noticia&p=22346"},"modified":"2021-04-01T15:01:35","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T15:01:35","slug":"stf-upholds-suspension-of-police-operations-in-rio-de-janeiro-favelas-during-the-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"noticia","link":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/noticias\/stf-upholds-suspension-of-police-operations-in-rio-de-janeiro-favelas-during-the-pandemic\/","title":"STF upholds suspension of police operations in Rio de Janeiro favelas during the pandemic","content":"

The STF (Federal Supreme Court) decided by a majority to uphold the precautionary measure granted by Edson Fachin in June to suspend police operations in favelas and the periphery in the state of Rio de Janeiro during the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n

With Minister Carmen L\u00facia\u00b4s vote, issued on Tuesday (4) morning <\/span>in a virtual session<\/b><\/span><\/a>, the plenary formed the majority needed to approve the decision. Until now, seven of the eleven ministers have issued their votes. Only Alexandre de Moraes has voted differently from the rapporteur.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Suspension of police activities was in response to a request made at the end of May by a coalition of organisations, social movements and a mothers\u00b4 movement which arose because of a series of violent police actions which happened during lockdown. In one of these, a fourteen-year-old boy called Jo\u00e3o Pedro Mattos, was shot dead by police officers who entered his home in S\u00e3o Gon\u00e7alo, in the wider metropolitan zone of the capital of the state of Rio de Janeiro.<\/span><\/p>\n

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