Policing and criminal justice system in Portugal
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AI documents deaths of two Africans in police shootings
Angelo Semedo
1 January 2003 (163 words)
Brazilians protest 'gratuitous police violence'
The Brazilian embassy requested further information from the minister of foreign affairs after the police were accused of using 'gratuitous violence' in breaking up a World Cup victory celebration of 500 Brazilian football fans in the Costa de Caparica.
1 August 2002 (117 words)
Another case involving Oporto PSP
AI cites other cases involving the Oporto PSP, including that of Mário João Augusta Rocha who claims to have been assaulted by PSP officers who then took him to Odivelas police station, where he was racially abused and punched in the bladder before being asked to show his identity papers.
1 January 2001 (74 words)
Rom dies in custody of Oporto police
A judicial inquiry was launched after a Rom died in the custody of the Public Security Police (PSP) after being arrested in the Aldoar area of Oporto.
1 January 2001 (165 words)
Oporto police beat man from Guinea-Bissau
Plainclothes PSP officers in Oporto are under investigation after eye-witnesses reported that they beat Gabriel Camara, a citizen of Guinea-Bissau, resident in Portugal for eight years.
1 May 1997 (47 words)
Who killed Olívio Almado?
Several police officers are under investigation after the body of a 21-year-old man of Cape Verdean origin, Olívio Almado, was found floating in the Tagus river near the docks of Alcântara in October 1996.
1 May 1997 (188 words)
Ill-treatment of detainees a 'relatively common phenomenon'
The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (ECPT) has published a report on its January 1992 visit to Portugal in which it concludes that the ill-treatment of detainees was a 'relatively common phenomenon'.
1 April 1995 (54 words)
Portugal attacked for treatment of Brazilian citizens
The Brazilian government is furious at the treatment of Brazilian students and workers, who are not only being turned back from Lisbon's Potela Airport but are, it is alleged, being beaten and abused by Portuguese airport frontier police.
1 April 1993 (158 words)
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