Justice should be more transparent and communicate more, use more perceptible language. The agreements are often huge texts, written in an elitist way and often what interests the citizen is written in a paragraph at the end of the agreement. A conversation with Magistrate Aurora Rodrigues and Judge Bruno Guimarães, with the president of the Court of Appeal of Évora, Judge Albertina Pedroso, as a witness, where we talk about justice and Justice.
MIRANTE spent an afternoon at the Évora Court of Appeal interviewing Magistrate Aurora Rodrigues who will be honored at that court in a vast program that aims to mark 50 years of the 25th of April revolution. Before recording the interview with Aurora Rodrigues and Judge Bruno Guimarães, president of the Évora Court of Execution of Sentences, we spoke in the office of the President of the Court, Albertina Pedroso, about the old regime, whose political police arrested and tortured Aurora Rodrigues, about Justice before and after April 25, 1974, about women in Justice, Justice and the media, injustice in Justice, the State of Justice and mandatory retirement at age 70.
In the coming days we will publish excerpts from this conversation, which will also be a way of associating ourselves with the approaching historic date. It is worth remembering that Aurora Rodrigues has already retired from the judiciary and that she published a book with the title “Gente Comum”, where she tells her life story but also a story of PIDE with many names and details of the time she was imprisoned and was punished with the torture of sleep and drowning, in addition to other tortures that were equally or more painful and endangered her life and mental health.
