Front Line Brazil: Murder Death Threats and other Intimidations of Human Rights Defenders 1997-2001
This report analyzes fifty-six separate incidents of violence and harassment of human rights defenders over the past five years in Brazil.
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These were not the only such cases during this period, but rather represent a frightening national tendency. Still, the numbers are impressive: twenty-three deaths, thirty-two death threats, four instances of attempted murder, four unjustified prosecutions, four beatings, one kidnapping, one disappearance and one unjustified detention. The report sheds light on a series of aspects of the defence of human rights in Brazil that merit attention.
