On the eve of the sanction of the Antifaction PL, the NGOs Conectas and Rede Justiça Criminal called the UN to try to prevent the Lula government from giving full approval to the project.
and there is a fear that the government will not veto points considered sensitive by human rights organizations.
The text approved by the Chamber of Deputies is the result of an agreement between the government and party leaders.
In the letter to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the NGOs make an “urgent appeal”, stating that the project promotes threats to judicial guarantees, with a serious setback in terms of human rights.
Therefore, they ask that the UN urge the government not to fully sanction the project. Furthermore, they want the government to submit the project to analysis of social, legislative and budgetary impacts.
In the document, the NGOs list a series of points considered by the entities as “setbacks”, such as criminalization of the families of prisoners and residents of the outskirts, the end of prison assistance and the prohibition of voting for pre-trial detainees.
In the government, one wing defends vetoes on these points, considering them to be unconstitutional.
NGOs still criticize the resumption of the concept of ultra-violent criminal organization, which is “excessively broad” and affects “practices typified as a structured social domain, practices that are equally broad and even coincide with typical practices of social movements”.
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