Bolsonaro government omits data on police violence from human rights report.
The Ministry of Women, Family and Human Rights, responsible for the "Human Rights Hotline" report, claimed that the data on police violence in the country throughout last year were "inconsistent."
247 - The Jair Bolsonaro government, through the Ministry of Women, Family and Human Rights, excluded data and indicators on police violence recorded in Brazil throughout last year from the "Human Rights Hotline" report. The claim is that the data collected is "inconsistent".
The document is considered one of the main tools regarding human rights violations in the country. The material is produced based on records from Disque 100, a hotline created in 1997 to handle complaints against human rights throughout Brazil.
According to a report in the Folha de S. Paulo newspaper, the rates had already been showing growth in recent years. In 2016, 1.009 cases were registered, rising to 1.319 (+30,7%) the following year. In 2018, the increase was 24%, reaching 1.637 cases.
According to lawyer and member of the Torture Never Again group, Ariel de Castro Alves, interviewed for this report, the non-disclosure of the data seems "something tailor-made," aimed at Jair Bolsonaro's base, "where he has the most support, which are the state police forces." "Especially the military police, who are the main ones denounced," he added.