Brazilian humorist will have made prejudiced jokes about social minorities. Portuguese comedian DZI will fight so that “comedy in Portugal is free”.
Brazilian humorist Léo Lins was sentenced to eight years and three months in prison for counting jokes considered prejudiced by a court in Sao Paulo.
“The exercise of freedom of expression is neither absolute nor unlimitedand must take place in a field of tolerance and exposing themselves to the restrictions that emerge from the law itself ”, read in the document, quoted by the.
“In case of confrontation between the Fundamental precept of freedom of expression And the principles of the dignity of the human person and legal equality must prevail the last, ”one reads.
The content of their jokes will be offensive to blacks, members of the LGBTQia+community, the elderly, people with HIV virus, homosexuals, evangelicals, Jews, indigenous people, people with disabilities, northeastern and obese.
At stake is a stand-up show, “Leo Lins-disturbing” with parts published on YouTube and other social networks, which remote at 2022.
“A sad chapter for freedom of expression in Brazil, in the face of a condemnation corresponded to censorship“The comedian’s lawyers wrote.
“One may not find the slightest fun or even hate the jokes of Leo Lins, but to condemn him to prison for them is a insanity and a disregard. I hope this completely unreasonable decision will be reversed, ”reacted one of the creators of the back of the back of the back, António Tabet.
In Portugal, humorist Fernando Rocha has already criticized the situation. “That’s why I I will fight until my last strength for comedy in Portugal to be free. This is at a point that you can’t even write words that are on the dictionary without asterisks and cardinal, ”he said on Instagram.
