The Brazilian Amnesty Law (n. 6.683/1979) was the subject of judicial review by the Supreme Court and control of conventionality by the American Court of Human Rights. While the Supreme Court ruled the law compatible with the Constitution of 1988, the ACHR considered it incompatible with the American Convention on Human Rights, for serious human rights violations committed by agents of the dictatorship do not prescribe and should be investigated and punished. It is important to define the scope of the domestic and international jurisdiction, and the possibility of convergence between the decisions. Doctrine and jurisprudence were used in an analytic-deductive approach, which found that the Supreme Court can still recognize and comply with the international decision. The assertion of the fundamental right to memory, to truth and reparation, which characterize transitional justice, requires the invalidity of the Amnesty Law.
Amnesty; constitutionality control; conventionality control; crimes against humanity; transitional justice