The Inter-American Court of Human Rights holds this Thursday (6) and Friday (7) hearing of the case of Chilean Maurício Hernandez Norambuena, and claims to have suffered human rights violations during arrest in Brazil.
Currently represented by DPU (Federal Public Defender’s Office), he was arrested in Brazil on February 1, 2002 and submitted to the differentiated disciplinary regime between February 2002 and February 2007.
In 1991, he had been convicted in Chile for the murder of Senator Jaime Guzmán, one of the ideologues of the dictatorship (1973-1990), and the kidnapping of Cristián Edwards, one of the sons of the owner of the newspaper El Mercurio. Norambuena was the leader of the Patriotic Front Manuel Rodríguez (FPMR), armed group that fought against the military regime in the country.
was kidnapped in December 2001. He was taken when leaving his advertising agency, W/Brazil. The publicist remained in a captive in Brooklin (southern São Paulo) until February 2, 2002 and was released after a neighbor heard his screams.
The Defender’s Office argues that prolonged isolation and incommunicability to which Norambuena has been subjected “are cruel and inhuman treatment, harmful to the psychic and moral integrity of individuals in prison.”
DPU also seeks the recognition of the international responsibility of the Brazilian State for the following violations provided for in the American Convention on Human Rights: personal integrity, equality before the law, non -discrimination, judicial protection, judicial guarantees and honor and image.
The agency calls for full reparation of violations, including economic compensation and satisfaction for the moral damages suffered.
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