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Country Situations > Portugal
Portugal: Visits & Communications
Correspondence from 2003
The record of correspondence for 2003 is excerpted from the official United Nations report, E/CN.4/2003/Add.1.
Communications received
On 13 December 2001, the Government of Portugal replied to a letter of allegation sent by the Special Rapporteur relating to Carlos Araújo, who was allegedly shot in the back by a police officer after having being surprised while robbing clothes in a shop. The Government informed that a disciplinary procedure against the responsible officer is ongoing; meanwhile a judicial sentence was pronounced against the police officer responsible for the shooting. However, it is not yet final since an appeal was presented at the court of appeal. Likewise, the disciplinary procedure is in standby as long as a final decision is not reached in the criminal procedure.
On 15 January 2002, the Government of Portugal gave additional information regarding Francisco António Viceto Cordeiro who died in police custody. According to the Government, he died of a natural death as a result of pneumonia. As to Dionisio Alberto Oriola, who died in police custody in the Coimbra prison, the autopsy concluded that he committed suicide. There was no sign of torture on his body.
Correspondence from 1983-2002
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary
executions has been corresponding with Governments regarding alleged violations
since the mandate was established over two decades ago.
While the Project on Extrajudicial
Executions is making efforts to provide easily browsed versions of as many years
as possible, much of the earlier correspondence is available only in the
PDF versions of reports from
1983 to the present.
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