Since Brazil’s judiciary started a crackdown on people accused of collaborating within the January 8, 2023 assaults on the nation’s authorities headquarters, following the defeat of former President Jair Bolsonaro by Luiz Inácio Lula de Silva, an estimated 180 fugitives stay at massive.
The Brazilian Federal Police has beforehand suggested that these folks might have fled to neighboring Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay.
Argentina’s migration workplace reported in October that 181 Brazilians requested asylum between December 2023 and September 2024. All of those instances stay pending, although all candidates are in a position to stay in Argentina below refugee standing whereas their requests are being reviewed.
A current public data request despatched by Latin America Experiences to the Uruguayan Refugee Council revealed that 23 Brazilian nationals have requested asylum in Uruguay since 2023. It isn’t clear what number of — if any — are wished by Brazil in reference to the federal government assaults.
Identical to in Argentina, the Uruguayan Refugee Council has confirmed that not one of the 23 asylum purposes made by Brazilian nationals since 2023 have been both authorized or rejected. At the moment, a complete 49 asylum requests by Brazilian nationals stay pending, together with these made earlier than 2023.
In January 2024, the Uruguayan Consulate in Brazil said there was a gaggle of 84 Brazilians in search of refuge in Uruguay.
In line with article 14 of Law No. 18076, each Uruguayan public authority “shall chorus from deciding to expel an asylum seeker or refugee from the nationwide territory till a closing determination has been issued in opposition to the refugee’s case. If obligatory, the Refugee Fee shall request help from the United Nations Excessive Commissioner for Refugees to resettle the refugee in a 3rd nation.”
It continues, “The choice ordering the expulsion of a refugee or asylum seeker might solely be adopted for well-founded causes of safety or public order and should be in accordance with the authorized procedures in power.”
Beforehand, three girls who have been convicted for his or her function within the January 8 assaults sought refuge within the Uruguayan consulate within the Brazilian metropolis of Santana do Livramento, which borders Uruguay. They have been recognized as Alethea Verusca Soares and Rosana Maciel Gomes, who confronted 16 and a half years and 14 years imprisonment respectively, and Jupira Silvana da Cruz Rodrigues, who additionally obtained a 14-year sentence after her trial was initially suspended.
After reportedly crossing the border into Uruguay, the three fugitives are actually living in Argentina, the place they’ve been interviewed by El País.
Final week, the Brazilian Federal Court docket printed a partial summary of the verdicts of these concerned within the January 8 assaults.
To date, 265 folks have been discovered responsible of armed prison affiliation, prison injury, injury to protected heritage, violent abolition of the Democratic State of Legislation, and tried coup d’état.
They’ve obtained sentences of between 15 and 17 years imprisonment. Moreover, 476 non-prosecution agreements have been signed, permitting those that have been not directly concerned within the uprisings and who have been accused of much less severe, non-violent crimes to admit and keep away from jail time. 4 folks have additionally been acquitted.
