{"id":5790,"date":"2016-11-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.conectas.org.inf.br\/wp\/noticias\/underhanded-maneuver\/"},"modified":"2021-04-19T12:30:35","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T12:30:35","slug":"underhanded-maneuver","status":"publish","type":"noticia","link":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/noticias\/underhanded-maneuver\/","title":"Underhanded maneuver","content":"

The president of the S\u00e3o Paulo State Court of Appeals, Paulo Dimas de Bellis Mascaretti, suspended<\/a> yesterday, November 7, a trial court ruling that ordered the regulation of the use of force by military police at demonstrations. Mascaretti drew on a provision contained in a federal law from 1992 (Law No. 8,437\/92) on the granting of precautionary measures against acts of state.<\/p>\n

The Public Defender\u2019s Office, which filed the case against the government of S\u00e3o Paulo, has five days to appeal the suspension. Until then, the military police has carte blanche to use less-lethal weapons such as rubber bullets and tear gas against demonstrators and it is not required to prepare a code regulating police conduct at protests, as the sentence published by Judge Valentino de Andrade on October 19 had determined.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe maintenance of the sentence would cause serious harm to public order and security, since it puts obstacles in the way of regular police activity in the performance of its institutional mission,\u201d said the judge in his decision<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In another excerpt, he claims that the preparation of the code would cause confusion over the use of force by the military police: \u201cAlthough the sentence in question allows for the possibility of using rubber bullets, tear gas and other more vigorous means \u2018in extremely exceptional situations, when the protest, as a whole, is no longer peaceful\u2019, this situation could certainly cause confusion about how the military police should act.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reaction<\/strong><\/p>\n

The maneuver by Mascaretti drew criticism from human rights organizations that are following the proceedings. According to Conectas, which was admitted as amicus curiae in the case, the S\u00e3o Paulo State Court of Appeals and the state government are trampling on human rights and on international commitments made by Brazil.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe state of S\u00e3o Paulo is alone in its insistence on not regulating military police action,\u201d said Rafael Cust\u00f3dio, coordinator of the Justice program at Conectas. \u201cBy suspending the decision, the court has doubled down on its error and risks tarnishing the image of Brazil in the United Nations,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Cust\u00f3dio was referring to the court\u2019s earlier suspension of a preliminary injunction issued in the case by Judge Aparecido in 2014. The debate on the injunction was taken to the 3rd Chamber of Appellate Judges, which had still not given its final decision when the sentence was published.<\/p>\n

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