quinta-feira, 8 de setembro de 2011

Court imprisons convicted of killing Dorothy Stang

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The Court of Justice of Pará, with the 1st Criminal Chamber Isolated, denied the appeal by the landowner, Regivaldo Pereira Galvao. He was sentenced to 30 years in prison for the murder of missionary Dorothy Stang, of USA, who died with six shots in 2005.

The lawyers appealed to overturn the sentence by the 2nd Circuit Court jury of Belém, in April 2010. The Court rejected the appeal, upheld the conviction and unanimously approved the request of the rapporteur of the appeal, Judge Nadja Nara Cobra, for the preventive arrest of Galvão.

He was sentenced to serve his sentence in a closed initially, but got a habeas corpus that allowed him to appeal the sentence in liberty, being the only one of five accused for the murder of the missionary to remain loose. Despite the evidence, the farmer has always denied any involvement in crime.

Galvão may appeal the decision in the Superior Court of Justice (STJ), but with the injunction approved arrest warrant today, must await trial in prison, unless he get another habeas corpus. According to a spokesperson of the State Court of Justice, the warrant is issued instantly online to the Civil Police, in charge of locating and arresting the farmer.

Dorothy Stang was a defender of the rights of small farmers in the region of Altamira (PA), area of intense land conflict. She was killed with six shots in February 2005, in the town of Anapu (PA). The others convicted of the murder of the missionary are Vitalmiro Bastos de Moura, sentenced to 30 years in prison; Rayfran das Neves, sentenced to 27 years; Clodoaldo Batista, sentenced to 17 years, and Amair Feijoli, sentenced to 27 years.

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