The district deputy (PSOL), president of the Commission for the Defense of Human Rights of the Legislative Chamber of the Federal District, asked the Attorney General’s Office to investigate who covered the.
During Glauber’s retreat, the press was prevented from recording images of the Legislative Police using force to expel the parliamentarian. Only the confusion surrounding the expulsion continued throughout the green room, with pushing and shoving and aggression.
In the document, Fábio Felix states that, as “widely recorded by press professionals, parliamentarians and the images that circulated publicly, journalists, cameramen and photographers were physically and verbally attacked by House security agents, prevented from carrying out their duties, expelled from the plenary and galleries, and subjected to illegitimate constraints”.
The district deputy states that the episode demonstrates “an obvious violation of the Federal Constitution and international human rights treaties that guarantee freedom of expression and information.”
“It is necessary to determine the political and administrative responsibility of the president of the session, deputy, either by direct order or by omission in the face of clearly abusive and violent conduct carried out by agents who were under his functional coordination at that time”, says the representation.
The district deputy assesses that the actions of the legislative police, instead of guaranteeing the functioning of the work and the integrity of those present, became “an instrument of intimidation, aggression and restriction of journalistic activity”.
For Felix, the action constitutes “the practice of criminal offenses and acts of , which may include bodily harm, abuse of authority, illegal embarrassment and other typical figures related to the excessive use of force and the obstruction of the professional activity of journalists, requiring prompt, rigorous and independent action from the Public Prosecutor’s Office”.
In addition to opening an investigation, listening to victims, parliamentarians, security agents involved and authorities responsible for conducting the session, Felix also requests internal images, official records from the Chamber of Deputies and other elements that can clarify the episode and identify all responsibilities, in the civil, administrative and criminal spheres.
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