Effect given to the recommendations of the committee and the Governing Body - Report No 340, March 2006

Case No 2156 (Brazil) - Complaint date: 04-OCT-01 - Closed

Effect given to the recommendations of the Committee and the Governing Body

1. 42. At its meeting in November 2004, the Committee requested the Government to send it a copy of the ruling handed down regarding the murder of the trade union leader Carlos Alberto Oliveira Santos [see 335th Report, paras. 28-30].
2. 43. In a communication dated 12 September 2005, the Government states that in the course of judicial proceedings on 29 April 2005, the Attorney-General’s Office presented the final charges against the defendants, who stand accused of doubly aggravated murder.
3. 44. The Committee takes note of this information and requests the Government to send a copy of the ruling eventually handed down regarding the murder of the trade union leader Carlos Alberto Oliveira Santos.