Allegation of torture
(N.Z. Press Assn —Copyright LONDON, March 28.
A Brazilian woman lawyer said in London on Friday that young children were being tortured in Brazil to extract confessions from parents detained on political charges. “The only democracy that exists in my country today is the democracy of torture,” Mrs Annina Alcantara de Carvalho, told a news conference. “Everyone is tortured—men, women and young children.” Amnesty International later said that it proposed to send a mission to Brazil to investigate her allegations. Mrs de Carvalho alleged that Mrs Hilda da Silva was forced to watch her baby daughter tortured by electric shocks. The women’s husband, she said, died under torture at the end of 1969. Torture became general treatment for political prisoners after December 12, 1968, when the Institutional Act abolished habeas corpus in Brazil, she alleged.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32567, 29 March 1971, Page 11
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