Strategic approach of the Public Defender’s Office of Rio de Janeiro in the custody hearings. Return of face to face hearings, data production and prevention and combat of torture and ill-treatment.

1. 2020 ILAC
Strategic approach of the Public Defender’s Office of Rio
de Janeiro in the custody hearings. Return of face to face
hearings, data production and prevention and combat
of torture and ill-treatment.
Caroline Tassara
Public Defender of the State of Rio de Janeiro and
Coordinator of the Custody Hearing’s Department - Brazil

2. Continuous monitoring of arrests in flagrante delicto through the interviews conducted
by public defenders prior to the custody hearings. Defender-Researcher

3. Data production through the periodic publication of researches

4. Promoting the debate and public policies based on evidence

5. Media impact

6. Media impact

7. Media impact

8. Institutional Protocol for the Prevention and Combat of Torture and
Ill-Treatment of the Public Defender’s Office of the State of Rio de Janeiro

9. National mobilization in partnership with civil society and advocacy before the National
Counsel of Justice for the prohibition of custody hearings by videoconference

10. The safe and successful return of face to face
custody hearings in Rio de Janeiro

11. The safe and successful return of face to face
custody hearings in Rio de Janeiro

12. Muito obrigada
Thank you
Merci beaucoup
Caroline Tassara
caroline.tassara@defensoria.rj.def.br