Does anyone have a link to the actual ruling on this torture affair?
The Court of Appeal in Évora not upheld the appeals of two inspectors from the Judicial Police convicted in Leonor Cipriano and decided to keep the ruling of first instance, said a lawyer Marcos Aragao Correia .
According to the lawyer for Leonor Cipriano , the Court of Appeal considered it "quite sufficient" all the evidence in the first instance to prove the existence of a "serious crime of torture" against Leonor Cipriano .
At trial, held in Faro, for several months, the two inspectors of the Judicial Police, Gonçalo Amaral and António Cardoso , were sentenced to one year and six months to two years and three months, respectively, suspended in its execution.
Gonçalo Amaral, former coordinator of the Criminal Investigation Department of Portimão , as the author was convicted of a crime of false allegations, and Antonio Cardoso, as the author of a crime of forgery of a document.
According to Marcos Aragão Correia , the Court of Appeal of Evora has declared "unfounded" every resource, including the claim of the defendants' proof of renewal. "
The lawyer adds that the judges who reviewed the resources, and decide to keep the full ruling of first instance final, confirmed that Leonor Cipriano "was brutally tortured by agents of the various Portuguese Judicial Police who remain unidentified."
According to Aragão Correia , the court considered "not to exacerbate" the sentence imposed by the Goncalo Amaral this be a "primary offender" and also the same as being retired from the police.
Marcos Aragão Correia announced that in consequence of this decision, Leonor Cipriano will lodge a formal complaint against the Portuguese government to the United Nations for violating "the most basic gross human rights".
Defence lawyers said the conviction will be sought and the expulsion of Portugal's Human Rights Commission United Nations .
18 March 2011
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