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BRASILEIRO DEFENSOR DE DIREITOS HUMANOS LIBERTADO, ALEXANDRE COSTA, PROMETE CONTINUAR SEU TRABALHO. OBRIGADO PELO SEU APOIO. FREED BRAZILIAN HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER, ALEXANDRE COSTA, PLEDGES TO CONTINUE WORK. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT. |
October 5, 2023 14:42
To The United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights Honorable Dr. Volker Türk
Your Excellency,
On behalf of Alexandre de Melo Costa, a Brazilian human rights defender unfairly imprisoned without judgment and in preventive detention since March 23, 2023, I am writing to you regarding a previous request for support and protection, according to the Declaration on Human Rights Defenders, Article 9-5, right to a prompt and impartial investigation or that an inquiry takes place whenever there is reasonable ground to believe that a violation of human rights and fundamental freedoms has occurred in any territory under its jurisdiction. One important point of view about Brazil when studying human rights and international law is that the Brazilian authorities have a special problem enforcing the international commitments or obligations previously assumed. The Brazilian government at all levels only does everything in its own way, and human rights would be an exotic favor, mainly in the state judiciary. Your Excellency, please note that this year we celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Declaration on Human Rights Defenders, and Brazil's Pernambuco State is suffering the most serious crisis in public security in this century. Six people from the same family were killed by the state military, live on social media, as the police’s revenge for the murder of two policemen in service. The state governor may face impeachment because of the public security crisis, as nobody was arrested or even removed for investigation, an evident measure to protect and serve the summary executions of a whole family of a suspect, also killed by the police. The situation of Alexandre de Melo Costa is also unusual because the case judge simply removed from the entrails of the judicial electronic process the criminal trial video of the entire hearing of all the people involved in that case, preventing the defense of the accused and suspending the court proceedings for more than 30 days illegally. Everything points to the evidence; the judge is protecting the military in order to convict the accused. The inmate was arrested in pre-trial detention in the event of false accusation, police persecution, forged flagrant, and falsification of the police inquiry caused by his status as a human rights defender and taken to the Prison of Igarassú, Pernambuco, Pavilion “C”, record 2057122. A human rights defender who is being subjected to cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment due to overcrowding, spoiled and insufficient food, exposure to a tuberculosis outbreak and toxic contamination of the cisterns of the prison system by a sanitary landfill. All the inmates are sick; contaminated by the spoiled food served and the poisoned water. Alexandre de Melo Costa responds to false criminal charges for supposed word crimes and the alleged damage to the protection bar where the suspects are handcuffed in the police station before the Third Criminal Court of the District of Paulista, Pernambuco, Brazil, case no. 0006949-34.2023.8.17.3090. There was the trial hearing on August 31, 2023, but at the same time, arbitrarily, in an illegal and never-before-seen move, the case judge suddenly subtracted the hearing video from the system of the court, and the lawyers work was totally obstructed. The referred hearing was very good for the defendant; the military contradicted themselves in the police inquiry and confirmed the defendant’s version in many points. But the case judge ‘censored’ the record of the evidence in a public case without any legal grounds. Everything indicates the case judge wants to nullify the August 31, 2023, trial hearing to determine a new hearing in the coming days in order to control what will be said in the records. We are convinced the magistrate may tell us the images were lost, accidentally erased from the computer, cloud or systems of the court. The case judge does not respond to the lawyers for more than 30 days. The disappeared trial hearing proved the innocence of the defendant, the case judge already knows Alexandre de Melo Costa is innocent, but the court is maintaining the prison because his absolution implies at the same time the conviction of the military. It is important to say that everything that is happening in this case is totally illegal. It reaches the boundaries of torture to keep an innocent arrested, hiding the proof of his innocence. In Brazil, it could be crimes of abuse of power or procedural fraud. In fact, there is a pattern of interference by the judge conducting the process to deny access to the defendant to records of two phone calls to the police, analogous to 9-1-1, that prove the innocence of the accused, but the judge is quiet hindering, without a decision for six months. It’s not about one public record for lack of hearing video; all public records requested were not granted by the case judge. In his judicial interrogation, the defendant exposed the atrocious prison conditions as well as the lack of medical care. Obviously, the State of Pernambuco doesn’t want to see these declarations of a human rights defender on the Internet. Finally, it’s necessary to explain that the town is a small city where everyone knows everyone. So, all the public officials involved in this case are acquaintances in their work and frequently share their official duties. The local political influence is to protect the police, not the people. Exactly as we saw above, six innocents were killed, and nothing happened. The petitioner kindly asks Your Excellency for a letter of support to the Brazilian Central Authority for the federalization, the right to a fair trial, moving the case from the State Court to the Brazilian Federal Justice, and his inclusion in the Brazilian Federal Government's Human Rights Defenders Protection Program, the investigation to clarify the defense of human rights is the real motivation for his illegal detention. Respectfully, Felipe Costa Eyelegal Team
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