{"id":32082,"date":"2021-06-01T21:23:17","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T21:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/?post_type=noticia&p=32082"},"modified":"2021-06-09T12:39:17","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T12:39:17","slug":"inter-american-court-of-human-rights-holds-public-hearing-on-violations-in-brazilian-prisons-and-recalls-the-super-case-in-the-court","status":"publish","type":"noticia","link":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/noticias\/inter-american-court-of-human-rights-holds-public-hearing-on-violations-in-brazilian-prisons-and-recalls-the-super-case-in-the-court\/","title":"Inter-American Court of Human Rights holds public hearing on violations in Brazilian prisons and recalls the\u00b4super case\u00b4in the court","content":"

On Wednesday (2), the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, linked to the Organisation of American States (OAS) will hold a public hearing of the \u00b4super case\u00b4 concerning human rights violations in Brazilian prisons.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

With live transmission starting at 11am<\/span><\/a> (Bras\u00edlia time), the hearing is another chapter in an <\/span>unprecedented resolution by the Court which, in 2017, combined four cases<\/span><\/a>\u00a0that had reached the court via precautionary measures: Curado Complex, in Pernambuco; Pedrinhas Complex, in Maranh\u00e3o; Pl\u00e1cido de S\u00e1 Carvalho Penal Institution, in Rio de Janeiro and The Correctional Detention Unit in Esp\u00edrito Santo, which is for juvenile offenders.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In February 2017, judges pointed to signs that conditions at these locations \u201cdid not only make minimum standards unfeasible\u201d, these being international ones for the treatment of prisoners, \u201cbut could also lead to cruel, inhumane and degrading sentences, in violation of the American Convention on Human Rights.\u201d The document summoned Brazil to respond to fifty-two questions about the prison system, with emphasis on episodes contained in the \u00b4super case\u00b4 and called on the country to implement concrete measures in eleven areas to avoid human rights violations in prisons.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In the session, Brazil presented generic information that failed to refute the Court\u00b4s suspicions that there were \u201csigns of a possible generalisation of a structural problem on a national scale in the penitentiary system.\u201d After the Brazilian response, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights judge, Eugenio Ra\u00fal Zaffaroni called the Brazilian policy of mass incarceration \u201ca device for producing arrest warrants.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Pedrinhas Complex\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

One of the most emblematic cases is that of the Pedrinhas Complex, in Maranh\u00e3o. In 2016, the report,\u00a0<\/span>Viola\u00e7\u00e3o Continuada: dois anos da crise em Pedrinhas<\/span><\/i><\/a> (Continuing Violations: two years of crisis in Pedrinhas)<\/span>,\u00a0<\/span><\/i>put together by Conectas, the Maranh\u00e3o Human Rights Society, the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB) of Maranh\u00e3o and Global Justice, said that the Pedrinhas prison units were becoming unsafe and overcrowded.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

From January 2013 to January 2014, 62 people died in Pedrinhas, 22 of whom, some decapitated, were recorded during a series of riots that started in October 2013. In the same year, the Maranh\u00e3o Human Rights Society and the Maranh\u00e3o Bar Association took the case to the IACHR (Inter-American Commission on Human Rights). In November 2014, following a further five deaths in prison units and the imprisonment of one of the directors for involvement in corruption, the case was transferred to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, that issued measures for Brazil to guarantee the lives and physical and mental protection of inmates and prison officers.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>

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