The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR Court) will analyze the forced disappearance of ten people more than 30 years ago in Brazil and the impunity after the murder of a human rights defender and another woman, the IACHR reported Tuesday.
The ten victims were kidnapped in 1990 in Magé, state of Rio de Janeiro“civilian and military police, some of them subjected to sexual violence, killed and thrown into the Estrela River,” says the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), in a statement.
The police investigation was filed after several years because the crime had prescribed and due to lack of material evidence since the bodies were never found.
Inter-American Court on Disappearances in Brazil
The IACHR, an organ of the Organization of American States (OAS), claims to have sent the case to the Court. Whose sentences are binding, on April 22.
The case also includes the deaths of human rights activist Edméa da Silva Euzébio and Sheila da Conceição. Who were relatives of one of the victims.
These were murdered after Silva testified before a court about the participation of police officers in the disappearances.
The IACHR considers “sufficiently proven that the victims suffered a forced disappearance, given that it occurred at the hands of state agents.” As well as “the lack of investigation by the State acted in the cover-up of the perpetrators of the facts.”
The State violated, among others, the right to equality of the disappeared victims. In addition, it stigmatized them as “criminals” for being young people of African descent with low economic resources, the Commission concludes.
