The Arns Commission denounces the regression embedded in Moro's package.
Moro's anti-crime package is already one of the most criticized bills in the country's history, even before being sent to Congress; after the Association of Jurists for Democracy, professional associations, and sectors of the Brazilian legal community, now the Arns Commission, formed by 20 prominent figures (chaired by Professor Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro), including six former ministers of state, denounces the regression in human rights that the former judge's package seeks to promote.
247 - Moro's anti-crime package is already one of the most criticized bills in the country's history, even before it has been sent to Congress. After magistrates spread throughout Brazil, the Association of Jurists for Democracy, and professional associations, now the Arns Commission, formed by 20 personalities, including six former ministers of state, denounces the regression in human rights that the former judge's package presents.
A report from the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo It emphasizes that "the group wants to monitor what it considers threats of setbacks in achievements in the areas of human rights guaranteed by the 1988 Constitution." Named the Arns Commission, in homage to Cardinal Archbishop Dom Paulo Evaristo Arns, who in 1972, during the military dictatorship, created the Justice and Peace Commission of São Paulo, the group will be chaired by former minister and political scientist Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro.
According to the newspaper, "among the members are criminal lawyer Antonio Cláudio Mariz de Oliveira, former Minister of Justice José Carlos Dias, former Minister of Finance Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira, and former Minister of Human Rights Paulo Vannuchi." Speaking to the newspaper Estado, Pinheiro stated that some aspects of Moro's package – which will be sent to Congress this Tuesday, the 19th – such as the exclusion of illegality (possibility of reducing or exempting the sentence of a police officer who kills in confrontational situations), the aggravation of penalties, and the elimination of some procedural appeals, are a cause for "concern."