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General Category => World News => Topic started by: TomSea on July 10, 2019, 07:00:34 pm

Title: Brazil's Rio de Janeiro Approves Controversial ‘Faceless Courts’
Post by: TomSea on July 10, 2019, 07:00:34 pm

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Brazil's Rio de Janeiro Approves Controversial ‘Faceless Courts’
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The President of Rio de Janeiro's Court of Justice, Claudio de Mello Tavares, announces the creation of "faceless courts"

Authorities in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro have created a special court of “faceless judges” to prosecute cases involving drug trafficking, organized crime and money laundering, although providing such anonymity has generated controversy in other countries.

The new special court was approved by Rio de Janeiro’s Court of Justice (Tribunal de Justiça) on July 1 and will start working in August of this year, reported O Globo. The identity of its judges, who will rotate in and out every 60 days, will remain secret as a security measure.

Read more at: https://www.insightcrime.org/news/brief/brazil-rio-faceless-courts/ (https://www.insightcrime.org/news/brief/brazil-rio-faceless-courts/)

Let's hope this is never needed here. Yes, there might be a reason for these kinds of measures.

Title: Re: Brazil's Rio de Janeiro Approves Controversial ‘Faceless Courts’
Post by: Fishrrman on July 10, 2019, 11:52:37 pm

Tom wrote:
"Let's hope this is never needed here. Yes, there might be a reason for these kinds of measures."

This was unusual (and controversial)... but... necessary.

Eventually -- if things keep goin' as they're goin' -- such measures might be needed even here.