Description
Book SynopsisThe English translation of Brasil: Nunca Mais, a catalog of how torture was used in Brazil from 1964 to 1985.
Trade Review"This is the most important book to come out of Brazil in this decade, perhaps in the last 30 years."
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Table of ContentsPreface to the New Edition
Foreword by the Former General Secretary of the World Council of Churches
Preface by the Metropolitan Archbishop of São Paulo
Introduction to the Brazilian Edition
Part 1: Cruel, Inhuman, and Degrading Punishment 1: Torture Classes: Guinea Pig Prisoners
2: Modes and Instruments of Torture
3: Torture of Children and Women
4: Medical Assistance to Torture Part II: The Repressive System 5: The Origins of the Military Regime
6: The Consolidation of the Authoritarian State
7: The History and Legal Structure of the Repressive System
8: How Suspects Were Detained Part III: Against Everything and Everybody 9: A Profile of Repression
10: Against Leftist Organizations
11: Against Targeted Social Groups
12: Against "Subversion" Part IV: Distortion of the Law 13: The Nature of Judicial Proceedings
14: Six Sample Cases Part V: "This Is Where Hell Is..." 15: The Houses of Horror
16: The Consequences of Torture
17: Deaths under Torture
18: The Disappeared Notes
Appendices
I. Glossary of Acronyms
II. Statement on Torture by the World Council of Churches
III. List of "Disappeared" Political Prisoners
