As to the management of the President (PT) and the Minister of (Supreme Federal Court) pleased Senate Bolsonarists, who celebrate the worldwide visibility given to the subject.
The document with the notes was sent by the US State Department to the US Congress.
The text states that the Brazilian government repressed the democratic debate and restricted the freedom of expression of former president’s supporters (). It also says that the courts have made decisions that undermine freedom of expression.
“The world is seeing what is happening in the country. You can’t hide anymore. Democracy is not,” said PL leader in the Senate, Carlos Portinho (RJ).
“We have a power that overlaps with others, there are several violations to, violations of prerogatives of citizens and parliamentarians. It has restrictions on freedom of expression, prior censorship,” said Portinho.
“The STF has extrapolated a lot in its skills,” said Senator Izalci Lucas (PL-DF). According to him, this kind of case “now begins to appear”. Izalci also mentioned punishments applied by the Supreme to US technology companies, known as Big Techs.
Senate’s leader Rogério Carvalho (SE) said the US government accusations are in the context of the tariffs imposed by products sold by Brazil to (PL-SP) and allies to play public debate and the US government against the Brazilian authorities.
“We will resist firmly and explain to the world that is another external intervention action in Brazil,” said Rogério Carvalho. “The homeland traitors will surrender to Trump,” said the senator.
The chairman of the Human Rights Commission, Reimont (PT-RJ), said the report is laughable. “Of course there are violations of rights in Brazil, but not the violations of rights they list,” he said. The deputy mentioned as an example the fact that, in Bolsonaro management, the country again appeared on the map of hunger.
He also said that there are many human rights violations in the US and that “this is very accelerated in Donald Trump’s government.” “How is the practice of your government of ‘repatriating’ immigrants and bringing them to their countries in a vexing manner, handcuffed on their feet and hands, deporting our Brazilian brothers and other countries as well,” he added.
Reimont also stated that, unlike countries that violate human rights, Bolsonaro is entitled to broad defense and due process of law.
The PT leader in the House, (RJ), called the “falsehood” document.
“In the United States, concern about democratic erosion and march towards an autocratic regime grows. […] The Trump government completely lacks moral authority to discuss human rights, “he published on his social network account.
The US report was ignored in the Supreme. The Court decided not to publicly comment on the matter, and two ministers consulted by the Sheet They even said they had read the document. The assessment is that the accusations raised by the Donald Trump government add to other US attacks on national sovereignty.
The tone adopted in the US government document this year contrasts with last year, made in the Joe Biden management, which analyzed 2023. In the previous report, aggressions to journalists and other human rights suppression in the country were attributed to Bolsonaro, which left power in 2022, contesting the election.
“The situation of human rights in Brazil worsened during the year. Courts took broad and disproportionate measures to undermine freedom of expression and internet freedom by blocking millions of users to information on an important social media platform in response to a case of harassment,” says the US state department.
“The government has damaged democratic debate by restricting access to online content considered as ‘harmful to democracy’, disproportionately suppressing the expression of former President Jair Bolsonaro’s supporters, as well as elected journalists and politicians, often in secret processes that lacked due process guarantees,” the document says.
The position of the US government resonates statements earlier by US President Donald Trump himself and state department secretary Marco Rubio.
Based on this assessment, the US and applied financial sanctions
The reading that Bolsonaro and his supporters would be suffering persecution in the country also motivated, according to the Brazilian government.
What the US government considers “censorship” to US companies on social networks and its users permeated much of the document that deals with human rights.
“The government censured online content considered in violation of the Supreme Court (STF) orders, which instructed the platforms to remove content that allegedly disseminated disinformation related to the electoral system or judicial institutions, or that they depreciated judicial authorities with threats or online harassment,” the report says.
The performance of the Supreme Court in containing content on social networks was the target of the document. European countries also received criticism for regulating social networks.
“Judicial records reveal that Minister Alexandre de Moraes personally ordered more than 100 user profiles on the social media platform X (previously Twitter), disproportionately suppressing the freedom of expression of former President Jair Bolsonaro, rather than adopting more specific measures to penalize content that would incite imperative illegal actions or harassment,” the text says.
