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Brazil Police Rescue Women, Make Arrests in String of Domestic Violence Cases Across Multiple States

Authorities report active investigations under feminicide, torture, domestic‑violence laws, with preventive detention requests advancing.

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Overview

  • In Recife, police found Lorena de Araújo Duarte dead in her apartment after a Uruguayan boyfriend led investigators to the address, and the case is being treated as feminicide.
  • In Palmas (TO), a 33-year-old was freed from alleged kidnapping and torture in a kitnet; two men were arrested on charges including torture, sequester and corruption of minors as police probe the role of two adolescents.
  • In Vilhena (RO), a woman was detained on suspicion of fatally stabbing her husband during a jealousy dispute, with the case registered as homicide after a blow to the chest.
  • Also in Palmas, João Pablo Almeida, 25, was arrested for the jealousy-motivated stabbing death of a 58-year-old and was located through his electronic ankle monitor as he awaits a custody hearing.
  • In Minas Gerais, two women were rescued from a locked room in Nova Serrana with two suspects arrested, and in Belo Horizonte a 31-year-old was caught in flagrante after stabbing her partner, with forensic findings contradicting her initial account.