Brazil: Forced eviction/use of excessive force: 468 families

Index Number: AMR 19/036/2006
Date Published: 30 October 2006
Categories: Americas, Brazil

The 468 families squatting in the derelict Prestes Maia building in central São Paulo will be forcibly evicted shortly if, as expected, a judge rejects their appeal against an eviction order. Similar previous evictions have been violent.