Brazil court upholds law that protects torturers

Friday 30 April 2010 Judges ruled not to change the law, which says extrajudicial killings and acts of torture and rape committed by members of the former military regime were political acts. Amnesty International has condemned the Brazilian Supreme Court's blocking of a reinterpretation of a 1979 Amnesty Law that protects members of the former military government from being put on trial for extrajudicial killings, torture and rape.The Supreme Federal Court judges on Thursday ruled seven to two to uphold the interpretation that crimes committed by members of the military regime were political…

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