A Human Rights Defense Commission Dom Paulo Evaristo Arns Disclaimed, on Thursday (31), a note in defense of the Supreme Court Minister (Supreme Court) Alexandre de Moraesstating that the president of the United States, Donald Trump, “perverte” a Lei Magnitsky in imposing sanctions against the magistrate.
The measure, made official on Wednesday (30), provides for the blockade of goods of Moraes in American territory and accuses the minister to promote “Arbitrary arrests” and impose “Restrictions on freedom of expression”.
In the text, the ARNS Commission criticizes the use of magnitsky law – – as an instrument of “Unfounded persecution” to a minister who “fulfills his legal function in the judgment of acts that, yes, paid against human rights in Brazil.”
The note also states to repudiate the decision to Trumpclassifying the sanction as a “Innominable offense” national dignity and the independence of the Brazilian judiciary.
The entity points out that the measures represent attempted “Press the Brazilian justice to interrupt the criminal proceedings underway against the defendants accused of trying a coup d’état”in reference to the investigations conducted by Moraes involving the.
For the ARNS Commission, the action of the US President “Attentive against the good relationships between countries” and represents “”.
The entity calls for Brazilian society to defend “”, reinforcing support to Moraes and the Supreme Court of what it classifies as “External interference” unacceptable.
Read the full note:
In defense of Alexandre de Moraes, from the STF,
Of democracy and national sovereignty
Public note
The Human Rights Defense Commission Dom Paulo Evaristo Arns expresses its repudiation of Donald Trump’s decision to impose personal economic sanctions on the Supreme Court (STF) Minister Alexandre de Moraes.
Through this public note, it comes to hands on entities and personalities of distinct political orientations, as well as collegiate as our Supreme Court and the press agencies of distinct coloring, which have already expressed the same protests.
We cannot shut up in the face of the offense perpetrated by the current occupant of the White House against the dignity of our people.
An offense, in fact, unnameable. After having casuistic removal of the visa of most STF ministers and dumping a bravado skill threatening to tax at absurd levels Brazilian products in the United States, the Trump government recurs in the affront to impose economic blocks on one of the court members, Minister Alexandre de Moraes.
And what is the motivation of all this? Press the Brazilian justice to interrupt the criminal proceedings underway against the defendants accused of trying a coup.
This is what is read in documents signed by the president of the United States. This is what is heard in the statements of their direct advisors.
None of the infamous measures have been justified based on commercial reasons or based on balancing the flow of currency. Such reasons, after all, do not exist.
The only manifest allegation is reduced to the explicit intent of freeing the defendant Jair Bolsonaro and his accomplices of the just and formally imperative lawsuit to which they respond, under the strict terms of the law, with their right of defense widely guaranteed.
The picture we face is doubly unacceptable.
In the foreground, the content of the measures, besides being outrageous, attentive to the good relations between countries and has no precedents in the diplomatic ties that have been guiding their understandings.
In another, even more serious plane, justifications for such arbitrariness are even worse: they demonstrate total contempt for the constitutional principle of independence between the powers that vigorously in Brazil and in all democratic states.
Finally – and for the ARNS Commission, this point must deserve the most dedicated attention of Brazilian citizenship – it is necessary to highlight the inversions that are concentrated in this case.
The legal basis for arbitrariness committed against the person of Minister Alexandre de Moraes is the magnitsky law. Now, this law, created in 2016 to impose sanctions on dictators who violated human rights, is now perverted and corrupted to lend themselves to the unfounded persecution of a magistrate who fulfills his legal function in the judgment of acts that, yes, undermined human rights in Brazil.
No statesman would take place the timely manner of making use of the magnitsky law to interfere with the due process conducted, with constitutional independence, by the judiciary of a sovereign country.
In Donald Trump’s repertoire, however, the stapting office becomes state solution.
We live in a time when the references of civilization are put up with the end.
In the United States, a government that has come to power thanks to the electoral mechanisms ensured by democracy never tires of paying attention against democracy.
Their allies around the world use the same formula: they use democratic freedoms and then stifle democratic freedoms.
That now the magnitsky law becomes a weapon against human rights not surprising us, but should put us on a redoubled alert.
We follow in national unity.
It is time to fight for reason, sanity, responsibility and prevalence of civilization.
All support for Minister Alexandre Moraes, the Supreme Court, Democracy and National Sovereignty.
It’s time to defend human rights.
Our people will know how to strengthen the fundamental rights of each Brazilian and each Brazilian, without tolerating any external interference.
Sao Paulo, July 31, 2025.
*Published by João Scavacin, from CNN, under supervision
