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BRASILIA - A Brazilian court sentenced 25 police officers to 624 years in jail on Saturday for the killing1 of dozens of inmates2 in the country's bloodiest3 prison riot in which 111 people died two decades ago.
Military police stormed Sao Paulo's Carandiru prison in 1992 to quell4 a riot sparked by a fight between two rival gangs that started with a quarrel during a soccer game.
The revolt ended in a massacre5 that exposed the harsh conditions of prisons in Brazil and the rest of Latin America. It became the subject of a 2003 hit film.
The court said in a statement the police officers were found guilty of the murder of 52 inmates, but will allow them to appeal the decision while still free.
Prosecutors6 said the officers, who belong to the elite7 unit of the military police in Sao Paulo, fired more than 300 rounds at the inmates during the riot.
The sentencing on Saturday is the latest in a series of separate trails of police officers accused of executing inmates during the 1992 massacre.
In April, a court sentenced a separate group of 23 police officers to 156 years in prison for their part in killing 13 inmates during the same massacre.
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1 killing | |
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财 | |
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n.囚犯( inmate的名词复数 ) | |
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adj.血污的( bloody的最高级 );流血的;屠杀的;残忍的 | |
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v.压制,平息,减轻 | |
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n.残杀,大屠杀;v.残杀,集体屠杀 | |
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检举人( prosecutor的名词复数 ); 告发人; 起诉人; 公诉人 | |
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n.精英阶层;实力集团;adj.杰出的,卓越的 | |
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谋杀( killing的名词复数 ); 突然发大财,暴发 | |
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