c) The criminal action concerning “the complaint of the torture [of] 16 inmates of
cell F-16 that occurred on September 8, 2008,” was decided on February 28,
2011, with a judgment convicting four individuals to terms of imprisonment for
the said crime. Three of those convicted filed an appeal before the Court of
Justice of the state of Rondônia;
d) The judgment in the criminal proceedings for the crime of coercion during an
investigation was delivered on October 14, 2010; it sentenced two individuals to
eight years and five months’ and five years and two months’ imprisonment,
respectively. Those convicted filed an appeal, which was forwarded to the Court of
Justice of the state of Rondônia on November 16, 2010;
e) In May 2010, 18 people were tried for the incidents that occurred in January
2002. In this regard, 15 individuals were convicted and three were acquitted.
Several of those convicted filed an appeal before the Court of Justice of the state
of Rondônia;
f) The judicial proceedings concerning other violent incidents that occurred in Urso
Branco in April 2004 are in the preliminary stages. In addition, the proceedings
concerning the investigation of gunshots fired in cell H-4 that injured four inmates
on August 8, 2009, concluded with the conviction of one individual to one year
and two months of suspended imprisonment;
g) The Director of Security and the Director General of the prison were dismissed;
h) Regarding the representatives’ request that the State present a “list of the
employees who [work] in the Urso Branco Prison who are involved in any type of
[…] administrative or judicial proceedings, it was not possible to prepare it due to
“the absence of the representatives from the [last] meeting” of the Special
Committee to monitor the provisional measures, and
i) Regarding inmate F.S.B. who was found dead in his cell on March 29, 2011, the
fact was communicated to the competent authorities and the body was
transferred to the Institute of Forensic Medicine.
6.
Regarding the implementation of these provisional measures, the representatives
indicated, among other aspects, that:
a)
Twenty complaints of abuse were documented between July 2009 and December
2010. They included, among other matters, cases of “premeditated and
organized violence,” the torture of prisoners during their transfer to another
prison in the state of Rondônia, the attack on a detainee who had requested
medical attention, the attempted murder of a prisoner by an official, and the
indiscriminate use of firearms by security agents. Regarding these facts, the
representatives reiterated the request made during the public hearing of
September 30, 2009, that the State present a list of all the officials currently
working in Urso Branco, expressly indicating those who are the object of
administrative inquiries, police investigations, or judicial proceedings;
b)
The inmate F.S.B. supposedly committed suicide in March 2011, because he had
received no response to his request that he be released from solitary
confinement, and allowed outdoors;
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