events
Brazilian President Artur da Costa e Silva issues AI-5 (Institutional Act No. 5), enabling government by decree and suspending habeas corpus.
Related Wikipedia articles
Artur da Costa e Silva
President of Brazil from 1967 to 1969
Artur da Costa e Silva was a Brazilian Army Marshal and the second president of the Brazilian military government that came to power after the 1964 coup d'état. He reached the rank of Marshal of the Brazilian Army, and held the post of Minister of War in the military government…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Institutional Act Number Five
1968 legislation by the Brazilian military government
The Institutional Act Number Five, commonly known as AI-5, was the fifth of seventeen extra-legal Institutional Acts issued by the military dictatorship in the years following the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Habeas corpus
Court action challenging unlawful detention
Habeas corpus is a legal procedure invoking the jurisdiction of a court to review the unlawful detention or imprisonment of an individual, and request the individual's custodian to bring the prisoner to court, to determine whether their detention is lawful. The right to petition…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)