{"article":{"id":251684,"heading":"TORTURE IN BRAZIL","author":"F\u00e1bio de Oliveira Ribeiro","created":"2012-02-25 11:18:01","modified":"2026-10-25 17:02:54","last_modified":"Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:02:54","article":"<p>The Brazilian Federal Constitution guarantees all prisoners the lack of corporal or infamous punishment. Respect for the dignity of the prisoner is a corollary of the penalty execution prescribed in the Law of Penalties Executions and in the Federal Constitution. Torture is a CRIME and should be treated as CRIME. <br><br> Unfortunately the use of torture is common in Brazilian prisons. This is a holdover from a brutal dictatorship that has not yet led to the punishment of policemen and soldiers who tortured and executed in Brazilian 1964\/1988: <br><br> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tDdyk7cG_fM&amp;feature=player_embedded#\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tDdyk7cG_fM&amp;feature=player_embedded#<\/a>!<\/p>\n","contact":"sithan@ig.com.br","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"The USA military   taught  Brazilian state agents to practice torture in the past and even today torture is used because no one was punished because of what happened during the Brazilian dictatorship imposed in Brazil by USA.","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2012\/02\/251684.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}