BRAZIL IS NO MECHANISM FOR THE PREVENTION OF TORTURE

Wednesday June 12, 2019
The National Committee for the Prevention of Torture (NPTC) rejected the
decree No. 9832 by which the President Jair Bolsonaro exonerated the
National delMecanismo members for the Prevention and Fight Against Torture
in Brazil yconvirtió to it in an integrated volunteer body the difficulties
involved for funcionamiento.Se is an unprecedented violation of the
Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel,
Inhuman or Degrading Treatment (OPCAT) United Nations and a serious setback
in the Brazilian state policies públicasrespetuosas of DDHH.El MNPCT is a
group created in 2013, according to law 12,847, which conducts studies and
reports on human rights violations in the context of confinement. For now
former coordinator of the Mechanism, Daniel De Melo, grupoes exemption from
retaliation to the actions of the institución.En April this year the
Mechanism presented a scathing report on lascárceles to drop and faced the
Ministry of Human Rights, at first prevented from entering the
criminal. "This is a clear retaliation for the way we have been acting, the
Mechanism has, for years, revealing the systematic practice of torture in
Brazil," said Melo, media periodísticos.El National Committee for the
Prevention of torture of Argentina understands that the measure contradicts
international conventions and treaties on the matter underwritten by the
State of Brazil and weakens the laucha against torture inthis country and
throughout the region, in this I felt expects the State to fulfill its
international obligation to ensure the resources and actions to continue
the work indepen National Mechanism as tooth veníarealizándose so far.
Buenos Aires, June 12, 2019

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