The president Dilma Rousseff, tortured during the military dictatorship, has given the green light to the Government for investigation of torture against ordinary prisoners in all prisons. Through Human Rights Minister, Maria do Rosario, the government will send to Congress a project for the creation of a special commission in this regard.
It will consist of 11 members, among which include physicians, psychologists, sociologists and social workers with full power to enter prisons without permission from the prison authorities in response to complaints from the prisoners or anonymous. The fact is unprecedented in a country still discussing the revision of the amnesty law for crimes of the dictatorship and the possibility to punish those who tortured political combatants.
Political analysts like Cantahêde Eliane, the newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo, argue that the failure to investigate the torture of prisoners common, serious have been the reasons for their detention, are another step "in building a developed country democratic, more just and humane. " Rousseff will visit Argentina next week accompanied by several ministers.
They plan to meet with the mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, who claim the investigation into crimes committed by the military dictatorship, including that of torture. The fact that the first female president of Brazil intends to investigate the torture of prisoners not only common and political prisoners of the dictatorship, as it has been appreciated as a gesture consistent with its claims that Brazil will combat human rights abuses anywhere in the world.
You just want to start their own home. Not turned off, for example, the sad echo of the torture and abuse committed against a young prisoner, confined in a prison exclusively for men in Para, where she was raped, battered and scarred forever. It's just one of thousands of sad examples. 
It will consist of 11 members, among which include physicians, psychologists, sociologists and social workers with full power to enter prisons without permission from the prison authorities in response to complaints from the prisoners or anonymous. The fact is unprecedented in a country still discussing the revision of the amnesty law for crimes of the dictatorship and the possibility to punish those who tortured political combatants.
Political analysts like Cantahêde Eliane, the newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo, argue that the failure to investigate the torture of prisoners common, serious have been the reasons for their detention, are another step "in building a developed country democratic, more just and humane. " Rousseff will visit Argentina next week accompanied by several ministers.
They plan to meet with the mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, who claim the investigation into crimes committed by the military dictatorship, including that of torture. The fact that the first female president of Brazil intends to investigate the torture of prisoners not only common and political prisoners of the dictatorship, as it has been appreciated as a gesture consistent with its claims that Brazil will combat human rights abuses anywhere in the world.
You just want to start their own home. Not turned off, for example, the sad echo of the torture and abuse committed against a young prisoner, confined in a prison exclusively for men in Para, where she was raped, battered and scarred forever. It's just one of thousands of sad examples.
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