San José, Costa Rica, March 15, 2024. - In the Judgment notified today in the Case of Tavares Pereira et al. v. Brazil, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (“the Court”) found Brazil internationally responsible for the disproportionate use of force employed by the Military Police on May 2, 2000, against Antônio Tavares Pereira and other 197 rural workers of the Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST) who sought to protest publicly, in addition to deficiencies in the proceedings regarding the murder of Mr. Tavares Pereira. This resulted in the violation of the rights to life, personal integrity, freedom of thought and expression, of assembly, of the child, freedom of movement and residence, judicial guarantees and judicial protection, to the detriment of Antônio Tavares Pereira, his next of kin and other workers