{"id":3906,"date":"2014-05-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.conectas.org.inf.br\/wp\/noticias\/crackdown-on-demonstrators\/"},"modified":"2018-01-29T17:54:07","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T17:54:07","slug":"crackdown-on-demonstrators","status":"publish","type":"noticia","link":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/noticias\/crackdown-on-demonstrators\/","title":"Crackdown on demonstrators","content":"

The agenda of the Constitution and Justice Commission (CCJ) of the Senate tomorrow includes a controversial and potentially dangerous item concerning the guarantee of the right to protest: the vote on the amendment to Senate Bill 508\/2013<\/u><\/a>, penned by Senator Armando Monteiro.\u00a0The text written by the bill\u2019s sponsor, Senator Pedro Taques, increases the penalties for crimes committed in the context of \u201cconcentrations of people\u201d, which represents an approach that criminalizes the right to protest.<\/p>\n

According to Rafael Cust\u00f3dio, coordinator of the Justice Program at Conectas, the bill uses the pretext of security to, in practice, restrict freedoms and criminalize demonstrators. \u201cIt will increase sentences for crimes that already exist and include, as an aggravating factor, the use of masks during the act,\u201d he explained. \u201cIt is an opportunist bill that exploits a particular moment of mobilization to exercise control over legitimate protest movements.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last week, Conectas and partners delivered a technical opinion<\/u><\/a> to 15 of the 27 members of the CCJ recommending the rejection of the bill. The document was prepared in partnership with the organizations IDDD<\/u><\/a> (Defense of the Right to a Defense Institute), Justi\u00e7a Global<\/u><\/a>, Article 19<\/u><\/a>, IDDH<\/u><\/a> (Defenders of Human Rights Institute) and Greenpeace Brasil<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Brazilian experience with popular demonstrations, observed since June 2013, has eloquently reaffirmed that the excessive official response, in addition to blatantly undermining the country\u2019s democratic legal institutions, has only resulted in more violence on the streets and in the crowds,\u201d reads the document submitted by the organizations.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to halt this cycle of illegal violence that has clearly been unleashed by inept action by the State, and instead tackle isolated illegal acts that occur during popular demonstrations while also guaranteeing everyone the proper security so they can exercise fundamental freedoms that are indissociable from life in a healthy democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>

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