The Inter -American Commission on Human Rights, Colombian Pedro Vaca, has told interlocutors who are concerned about the lack of clarity in the difference between what is attack on democracy or hate speech and what is a legitimate critical discourse in Supreme Court actions Federal (STF).
The rapporteur also told interlocutors heard by Sheet Being frightened by the level of, especially with representatives of the conservative field, who claim to be censored by the Supreme.
Vaca arrived in Brazil on Sunday. On Thursday (13), he met with former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) in Rio de Janeiro. According to the Metrópoles website, Bolsonaro would have told the cow that there would be “political persecution” to Opponents of the Lula Government (PT), realized through Supreme Surveys.
On Tuesday (11), the rapporteur had a meeting with pockets such as Deputy Bia Kicis (PL-DF), Deputy Marcel Van Hattem (Novo-RS) and Senator Eduardo Girão (Novo-CE). He also met with the president of the STF, Luís Roberto Barroso, and Minister Alexandre de Moraes. He also met with civil society organizations, journalists and academics.
The main concerns raised by cow with various interlocutors are the lack of clear definition for what is misinformation, which can increase the responsibility of platforms, the removal of accounts on social networks and.
Vaca is under pressure from Trumpist republican deputies in the United States, who threaten to cut the country’s financing for the rapporteur of freedom of expression of the Organization of American States (OAS).
In November last year, Republicans Chris Smith, Darrel Issa Maria Elvira Salazar and Carlos Gimenez sent a letter to the rapporteur by saying that they had already requested measures to cow about Moraes’ actions and that nothing had happened.
The US are great funders of the Freedom of Expression Rapporteur. “We are very concerned about how these resources are being used, since there was no measure of the organization to address these urgent issues that are a blatant violation of rights.”
Two of the signatories had sent a letter to the then Democratic government asking the visas of Moraes and other STF ministers to the US to be canceled.
Bolsonarist politicians have been articulated with republican legislators to denounce what they say are censorship.
The Brazilian government, on the other hand, fears that the report to be produced by cow will be used by pockets to press the annulment of Bolsonaro’s ineligibility.
The rapporteur was also impressed by reports of attempted intimidation to journalists and academics by right -wing judges and politicians and the use of slander and defamaches.
He met with journalist Schirlei Alves, published by her on the Intercept website about the case of.
He was also with Marie Santini, Netlab director of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). She and the Research Center have been targets of numerous requests for opening CPI, congress calls and investigation by deputies of the Bolsonarist bench.
They refer to what happened in the US with researcher Renee Di Resta and its Research Center at Stanford University, which was closed after intense harassment of trumpland legislators.
Vaca was going to meet with the writer João Paulo Cuenca, the target of judicial harassment of the Universal Church, and Natália Viana, director of the public agency, target of lawsuits by Deputy Arthur Lira.
The organization Article 19 presented a report by the Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism (Abraji) about judicial harassment to journalists.
The survey shows Bolsonarist legislators who denounced to be censored as the authors of numerous actions against journalists.
In the survey made in 2020, there are at least 11 Bia Kicis lawsuits against journalists, vehicles and communicators, and 6 asked for the withdrawal of journalistic content on “investigations regarding her posture with the Covid-19 pandemic.”
The cow agenda was not made public, but the Sheet He had at least ten meetings with ministries, judiciary organs and parliamentarians in Brasilia.
The members of the ministries talked about misinformation in the country and how this affects public policies, as well as dealing with topics such as networking regulation.
This Friday (14), after a meeting with civil society entities, Vaca said that there are many stakeholders in the subject and that the organization is making all efforts to complete the report as soon as possible.
Brazilian NGOs had sent a letter to him denouncing what they see as a strategy of extreme right politicians in Brazil of “” to destabilize the attempts to “accountable for attacks on Brazilian democracy”.
SIGN CASE 19, TORVOVOZ, ABRAJI (Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism), Digitales, Fenaj (National Federation of Journalists), Intervoices, Reporters Without Borders, Vladimir Herzog Institute and Washington Brasil Office, who will meet with the rapporteur.
On Monday (10), in his meeting with Vaca, the president of the Supreme Court spoke about the “democratic risk situations, such as the politicization of the Armed Forces and the attacks on institutions” that Brazil has been through recent years, according to Supreme Advisory.
Moraes would have talked about open investigations and the circumstances that led to the suspension of X. According to him, 28 investigated in the attacks of January 8 have profiles on social networks blocked by order of the Supreme Court.
Bia Kicis told Sheet That the rapporteur’s visit “is an opportunity to show how censorship has been presented as a means of ‘protection of democracy'”.
Last year, she, Van Hattem and Girão requested an audience with the rapporteur in Washington.
The hearing was marked, but was postponed, according to the IACHR, due to the invitation of the Brazilian government to the coming to Brazil. Congressmen were received at a private meeting at the OAS.
On Tuesday, Vaca told Metropolis being very “impressed” with reports of parliamentarians about freedom of expression. “The tone of the reports is really impressive,” he said.
The statement. On Wednesday (12), he stated that Brazil’s invitation to his delegation demonstrates to the world the wide democratic strength of the country.
Collaborated Victoria Cécolo
