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Last week, the Superior Court of Justice (STJ) judged a Special Appeal filed by the Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office, ruling out the Amnesty Law as forgetfulness and determining that public officials should be held accountable for torture and other human rights violations during the dictatorship. Check here the initial of the Public Civil Action, the Special Appeal, the decision and the...

Yesterday, June 08, 2020, the Ministry of Women, Family and Human Rights published in the Official Gazette of the Union a series of ordinances annulling previous ordinances declaring political amnesty. The important thing to understand this situation is to answer the question: is Ordinance 1.104/GM3/1964 an act of exception or not? What is Ordinance 1.104/64? It is basically the restriction for...

Until recently there was no doubt about the state of exception that began in 1964 in Brazil. But various voices of authority have begun to relativize or even deny the very harmful and long-lasting dictatorship through which we have passed. There are even some who have returned to using the expression “revolution” to say that there was no coup d’état in 1964. To refute any of...

Our Research Group will resume activities in 2019, next April 5th, at 7pm at the Law School (UnB). We will make the planning of the year

Our Research Group will resume activities in 2019, next April 5th, at 7pm at the Law School (UnB). We will make the planning of the year

The next meeting of our Research Group will be on June 29th, from 7pm, in room A1-05 of the Law School of UnB. On the agenda, forwarding publications, news and the presentation of Working Group (WG) 6 of our research project.All people interested in discussing this topic are welcome!!!

Raquel Dodge asks STF to reopen Rubens Paiva case and pushes for Brazil to follow courtInter-American. Prosecutors in four states have so far filed 32 criminal complaints about crimes during the regime At the age of 25, Aylton Adalberto Mortati was a prime target for repression during the Brazilian dictatorship. He had been arrested after a student congress in 1968 and the following year...