Lula’s government monitors conditions of 1,500 detainees for coup acts

The President’s Government Brazilian, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silvaannounced this Tuesday that it is monitoring the situation of the nearly 1,500 detainees for Sunday’s assaults on the offices of the Presidency, Congress and the Supreme Court after complaints that their rights have been violated.

Concern over the situation of the arrested radical Bolsonarists, most of whom are provisionally confined in a Federal Police sports hall, was expressed by the Lula government’s Human Rights Minister, Silvio Almeida, in a statement.

Numerous detainees began to be transferred this Tuesday to the Papuda prison, on the outskirts of Brasilia.

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The Human Rights portfolio reported in the note that it is in contact with the Ministry of Justice “to monitor the situation of the people detained after the disorders that occurred in Brasilia.”

According to the statement, the two portfolios will act together “so that legality is always observed”.

The announcement came after the detainees themselves took advantage of their access to social networks to denounce alleged violations of their rights, some of which have already been denied, including mistreatment and inhuman conditions of detention.

In addition to 300 people arrested on Sunday in flagrante delicto for their participation in the coup attacks, another 1,200 were arrested on Monday in the camp that the former president’s supporters Jair Bolsonaro They had installed 70 days ago in front of the Army headquarters in Brasilia to pressure for a military coup against Lula, whose electoral victory they do not recognize.

They were all taken to a sports hall while some 50 teams of prosecutors and police try to identify them and question them one by one to establish their possible responsibility for the attacks and determine whether to release them or charge them.

Senator Lasier Martins denounced that among those confined in the gym there are minors and the elderly, which was denied, and that the conditions of those arrested are inhumane.

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“They are being subjected to an extreme situation due to lack of water, lack of bathing and starvation, which makes us think that a concentration camp was created,” stated the right-wing senator.

Justice Alexandre de Moraes of the Supreme Court responded to these allegations during a speech, saying that “Until Sunday they promoted disorder and crimes, and now they are complaining because they are detained and they want their prison to be turned into a vacation colony.”

The Ministry of Human Rights clarified in its statement that it is fully aligned with the Government’s decision to respond to the “coup acts and the frustrated attempt to abolish the democratic rule of law with the most rigorous treatment under the terms of the law and the Constitution.”

But he clarified that, by acting in defense of life and social justice, he is concerned with all prisoners, including those accused of coup, especially the inhumane conditions of Brazilian prisons.

Source: EFE