Brazil court upholds law that protects torturers30 April 2010
Amnesty International has condemned the Brazilian Supreme Court’s blocking of a reinterpretation of a 1979 Amnesty Law that protects members of the former military government from being put on trial for extrajudicial killings, torture and rape.
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