On 3 December 1982 Brazil’s Supreme Military Court (STM) gave its ruling following an appeal by two French priests Aristide Camio and François Gouriou. It slightly reduced the severe sentences imposed by the Military Court in Belém on 22 June 1982. Father Camio’s sentence was reduced to 10 years’...

Amnesty International has now received reports that the Superior Military Tribunal (STM) has rejected an appeal lodged by Juvêncio Mazzarollo against a one-year sentence imposed by the Auditoria Militar (military court) in Curitiba on 27 September 1982.

On 28 September 1982 Juvêncio Mazzarollo, editor of a journal, Nosso Tempo, in Foz de Iguaçu, Paraná, near the Paraguayan border, was sentenced to one year’s imprisonment under Article 42 paragraph 5 of the Law of National Security. Amnesty International considers Juvêncio Mazzarollo to be a...

On 16 April 1982 the Superior Military Tribunal will hear appeals on behalf of Luis Inacio da Silva (known as “Lula”) and the ten other members of the metalworkers union convicted of offences under the Law of national Security.

According to the most recent information received by Amnesty International, Jusuf Ishak, who was arrested on 5 October 1981, is still being held in incommunicado detention. There are no known charges against him. Since his arrest, he is reported to have been denied access to his family and to a...

On 25 February 1981 a São Paulo military court tried Luis Inacio da Silva (known as “Lula”) and 12 other members of the metal workers’ union on charges under the Law of National Security. The charges related to a six-week strike by metal workers in São Paulo in 1980. Amnesty International expressed...

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Luis Inacio da Silva, known as “Lula”, the President of the São Bernardo and Diadema Metal Workers’ Union, and twelve other trade unionists were charged with offences under the Law of National Security in connection with a six week strike by metalworkers in São Paulo in 1980.

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