The Recovery Of Hearts And MindsTorn Apart By Torture

Online, June 15, 2011 (Newswire.com) - "What is the difference between Guantánamo, Abu Ghraib, Favela Naval, São Paulo's FEBEM, both in Sao Paulo, and so many other prison establishments worldwide?
We believe there is no difference, except for perhaps the physical location of each. Torture is one of the greatest aberrations to exist since the ancient times, and which unfortunately persists until today."
It was with this question and answer that Alexandre Pontieri - an attorney with a graduate degree in Tax Law from UniFMU in São Paulo and in Penal Law from the College of the São Paulo State Public Prosecutor's Office - opens his article "The barbarity of torture continues to be and is still tolerated." The story was published this year.
It is to address the consequences of systematic torture that still occurs in Brazil (and in several different parts of the world) as a universal and unpunished phenomenon, with a high level of acceptance by sectors of the government and public opinion that Marco Roza wrote and published, in Portuguese, his book "The Stain Glass Windows of the Sound-Proof Room" on Amazon.com.
In the book, the author describes the dissolution and decomposition of a prisoner's personality who, after being tortured, is then returned to his family in a sealed casket. This was a daily occurrence during Brazil's military dictatorship. And the work uses the interaction between the parts of the main character to involve the reader in the torturing (but stimulating) process of capturing the book by its parts. With the opportunity, constantly present, of reorganizing the content of the book based on the parameters of human dignity.
The result is a work in which the readers legitimate each phase. And they can read the book in the order they best understand, since as they go on capturing the nuances of the different characters, there will be able to breathe life into the work as a whole. With the human and spiritual recovery of the political prisoners who had their body and soul, heart and mind, torn apart by systematic torture.
Get a behind-the-scenes look at those who helped produce and support the book at the blog [url:http://www.osvitraisdasalaaprovadesom.blogspot.com.)
You can also interact with the author directly on this webpage.