The government of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced on Tuesday that it is monitoring the situation of the nearly 1,500 detainees for Sunday’s assaults on the offices of the Presidency, Congress and the Supreme Court after complaints that their rights have been been raped.
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Concern over the situation of the arrested radical Bolsonarists, most of whom are provisionally confined in a Federal Police sports hall, was expressed by the Lula government’s Human Rights Minister, Silvio Almeida, in a statement. Numerous detainees began to be transferred this Tuesday to the Papuda prison, on the outskirts of Brasilia.
The Human Rights portfolio reported in the note that it is in contact with the Ministry of Justice “to monitor the situation of the people detained after the disorders that occurred in Brasilia.”
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According to the statement, the two portfolios will act together “so that legality is always observed.”
The announcement came after the detainees themselves took advantage of their access to social networks to denounce alleged violations of their rights, some of which have already been denied, including mistreatment and inhuman conditions of detention.
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In addition to 300 people arrested in flagrante delicto on Sunday for their participation in the coup attacks, another 1,200 were arrested on Monday in the camp that followers of former President Jair Bolsonaro had set up 70 days before in front of the Army headquarters in Brasilia to press for a military coup against Lula, whose electoral victory they do not recognize.
They were all taken to a sports hall while some 50 teams of prosecutors and police try to identify them and question them one by one to establish their possible responsibility for the attacks and determine whether to release them or charge them.
Senator Lasier Martins denounced that among those confined in the gym there are minors and the elderly, which was denied, and that the conditions of those arrested are inhumane.
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“They are being subjected to an extreme situation due to lack of water, lack of bathing and starvation, which makes us think that a concentration camp was created,” said the right-wing senator.
Justice Alexandre de Moraes, of the Supreme Court, responded to these allegations during a speech, saying that “until Sunday they promoted disorder and crimes, and now they complain because they are detained and want their prison to be converted into a vacation colony.”
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The Ministry of Human Rights clarified in its statement that it is fully aligned with the Government’s decision to respond to the “coup acts and the frustrated attempt to abolish the democratic rule of law with the most rigorous treatment in terms of the law and the Constitution”.
But he clarified that, by acting in defense of life and social justice, he is concerned with all prisoners, including those accused of coup, especially the inhumane conditions of Brazilian prisons.
EFE
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