United Nations
Optional Protocol to the
Convention against Torture
and Other Cruel, Inhuman
or Degrading Treatment
or Punishment
CAT/OP/BRA/2/Add.1
Distr.: General
31 March 2014
English
Original: Spanish
Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture
and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading
Treatment or Punishment
First response of the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture
and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or
Punishment to replies of Brazil to the recommendations and
requests for information made by the Subcommittee on
Prevention of Torture in its report on its first periodic visit to
Brazil
Addendum
Replies by Brazil to the first response of the Subcommittee* **
* The present document is being issued without formal editing.
** On 28 February 2014, the State party announced its decision to make public its replies to the
Subcommittee’s first response. This document is published in accordance with article 16, paragraph 2,
of the Optional Protocol.
GE.14-42059 (E)
020614 040614
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