Secretary of the US Treasury stated that the minister is responsible for an ‘oppressive campaign of censorship, arbitrary arrests that violate human rights and politicized processes”
The US Treasury Secretary said in a statement on Wednesday (30), announcing the sanction of the Federal Supreme Court Minister () based on, that the magistrate “assumed for himself the role of judge and jury in a hunting for illegal witch against citizens and companies from the US and Brazil.” Sought, the Moraes Office had not spoken until the publication of this text. Bessent also stated that Moraes is responsible for an “oppressive censorship campaign, arbitrary arrests that violate human rights and politicized processes, including against the former president”. He added that the measure “makes it clear that the Treasury will continue to blame those who threaten US interests and the freedoms of its citizens.”
“Alexandre de Moraes assumed for himself the role of judge and jury in an illegal witches against citizens and companies in the US and Brazil. De Moraes is responsible for an oppressive campaign of censorship, arbitrary arbitrary that violates human rights and politicized processes-including against former President Jair Bolsonaro. Today’s action will continue to hold those who threaten the US interests and the freedoms of our treasury. Citizens, ”said Bessent.
According to the Treasury Department, the sanction results in the blockade of all the goods of Moraes in the United States. In addition, the rules prohibit US companies to carry out financial or commercial transactions with the STF minister. The measure was announced two weeks after the State Department revoked the visas of Moraes and other ministers. According to the Treasury, since its appointment to the Supreme Court in 2017, Moraes would have made “arbitrary preventive arrests, censored opponents and technology companies, and used his position for political persecution.”
The magnitsky law was created to punish authorities of dictatorial regimes and convicted of human torture and trafficking. The text was sanctioned in 2012 by the government of Barack Obama. The measure bears the name of Sergei Magnitsky, a Russian lawyer who denounced a corruption scheme of his country’s authorities and died in a Moscow prison in 2009. When he was sanctioned, the text contemplated sanctions against the authorities responsible for the death of Magnitsky. The law was also expanded under the Obama government and had its current terms promulgated in 2016. With the new newsroom, the text began to allow sanctions against authorities from any countries that violated human rights.
Today, is sanctioning Brazilian Supreme Federal Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who has used his position to authorize arbitrary pre-trial detentions and suppress freedom of expression.
Alexandre de Moraes is responsible for an oppressive campaign of censorship,…
— Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent (@SecScottBessent)
*With information from Estadão Content
Posted by Fernando Dias
