Weekly Report - 17 February 2004
BRAZIL: Police killings: UN pulls no punches
The UN report on extrajudicial executions in Brazil was, if anything, harsher than special rapporteur Asma Jahangir had suggested during her fact-finding visit last year. It paints a picture of hundreds of such killings by police, mainly in the shantytowns, and of great reluctance of the judiciary to prosecute those responsible.
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