Brazil in the dock: the Inter-American Court of Human Rights rulings concerning the dictatorship of 1964-1985

• Autor(a) principal: Emílio Peluso Neder Meyer
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Outros Autores: Fabrício Bertini Pasquot Polido
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFMG
• Texto Completo: http://doi.org/10.17176/20181203-230112-0; http://hdl.handle.net/1843/39463; https://orcid.org/ 0000-0002-7500-0705; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5631-8438
• topic: Direito internacional; Direito constitucional; Corte Interamericana de Direitos Humanos; Justiça de transição; Direito internacional dos direitos humanos; Controle de convencionalidade; Direito constitucional; Direitos humanos; Justiça de transição; Ditadura

On July 4th 2018, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) made public the condemnation of Brazil for its omission in investigating, prosecuting and condemning the public agents supposedly liable for the torture and murder of the journalist Vladimir Herzog. The events took place back in 1975, during the dictatorship of 1964-1985. After several attempts to move judicial authorities in the domestic system, the case was taken to the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights and, finally, to the IACtHR. Investigation is now open again in Brazil. However, as we will demonstrate in the following piece, there is a stark dissent between Brazilian prosecutors and judges, compromising the possibility of criminal liability for crimes committed during the dictatorship. The main obstacles come from judges and courts that continuously refuse to accept the normative force of International Human Rights Law.