AI is concerned about further violence against street children in the Praca da Se by members of the military police over the Christmas period. On 25 December Military police reportedly beat two adolescents after they had been apprehended trying to assault a passer-by. In the ensuing confrontation police allegedly fired live ammunition at street children and a number of boys were beaten. On 26 December a policeman beat a girl whom he reportedly overheard calling him drunk: the incident developed into a confrontation between street children and police, who beat the children.
