Those who signed an agreement with (Attorney General’s Office) to get rid of criminal proceedings of teaching what a coup d’état is and talk about the development of democracy around the world.
The course “Democracy, Rule of Law and Study” has a total duration of 12 hours and is divided into four modules, with aesthetics similar to other law courses displayed on video. Lawyers of some of the defendants report that clients consider boring content.
The course is one of the obligations applied to people that in processes of January 8. Classes are also an alternative measure for those defendants who refused the agreement and were sentenced to low penalties of a year of imprisonment.
In these two groups are accused by the so-called incitement to the 2023 scammer acts, especially the people who were in the camps in front of the Army Headquarters in.
To watch the videos, the defendants will face in person to rooms that are in places like criminal execution courts, where the material is displayed on computers. You do not need to answer questions about the content of the video, nor is there interaction with the prosecutors responsible for the classes.
When watching these classes, it is forbidden to use electronic equipment such as cell phones, or record the images.
The videos were also not released by PGR. THE Sheet had access to excerpts from the recordings. Asked about the elaboration of the course and its didactic models, the Attorney General’s Office did not speak.
In class, prosecutor André Luiz Batista Neves talks about subjects such as democracy and human rights and mentions items of the legislation on topics. Another prosecutor, Manoel Jorge and Silva Neto, also presents part of the disciplines.
The first module deals with democracy. The next two talk about the rule of law, and the fourth, about coup d’état.
According to reports heard by the report, it is historically taught how the democratic process was formed and how it developed in other countries.
At the end of the course, it is presented to the defendants which configures a coup of state. According to one of the people who attended classes, the content treated could also be easily found in internet searches.
In addition to classes, the defendants who signed agreements on January 8 usually have to pay a fine from $ 5,000 to $ 50,000 and provide community services. They are still prohibited from participating in open social networks until the end of the agreement.
A Sheet He sought lawyers from accused who signed this kind of agreement. They talked to the report privately and openly. These professionals do not follow customers during classes and report that they do not always consider the course effective.
“The classes are televised, and the only thing people complained is that it gives a lot of sleep, because it is a very calm, very quiet class,” says lawyer Luiz Eduardo Righetto, who defends defendants from Santa Catarina.
“They speak of various theme, such as Constitution, Politics and Democracy, and obviously pinning people about what they could or could not have done on January 8.”
Another lawyer has a more critical view of the course and said the videos do not change the convictions of the accused. “Keeping the proportions is the same as forcing a good citizen to attend a concentration camp and find it good,” said Grimaldo Roberto de Resende, who works in Brasilia. “I think it is absolutely innocuous, disproportionate and inadmissible.”
In disseminating that the course would be one of the defendants’ obligations that chose a deal, in 2023, the then coordinator of the PGR undemocratic acts, the sub -prosecutor Carlos Frederico Santos, said he was inspired by the Inter -American Court of Human Rights that imposed the implementation of a permanent human rights program in the Armed Forces.
The case in which Brazil was sentenced was dealing with the Araguaia guerrilla during the military dictatorship.
According to him, the objective of the course was to “guarantee the pedagogical aspect of the measure, besides contributing to the process of consolidation of the democratic rule of law”.
In the case of January 8, as a condition to close the agreements, all defendants had to confess the commission of crimes of incitement and criminal association, provided for in the Penal Code.
To date, according to the (Supreme Court) calculations presented during the trial that made the former president (PL) defendant under, at least 542 agreements of non-criminal prosecution were signed in the actions of January 8. They were validated by the minister.
