The United States government released on Tuesday (12) its report on the human rights situation in other countries in 2024, and the part that evaluates Brazil brings criticism to the Supreme Court Minister (STF) Alexandre de Moraes and President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
The stretch begins by stating that “the situation of human rights in Brazil has been declining throughout the year.”
“The courts have taken broad and disproportionate measures to undermine freedom of expression and freedom on the Internet, blocking millions of users to information on a major social media platform in response to a harassment case,” the US State Department said.
“The government undermined the democratic debate by restricting access to online content considered as ‘threat to democracy’, disproportionately suppressing the speech of former President Jair Bolsonaro’s supporters, as well as elected journalists and politicians, often in secret processes without the guarantees of due process of law,” the folder added.
“The government also suppressed politically unfavorable speeches, claiming that they constituted ‘hate speech’, a vague and detached term of international human rights law,” the state department said.
In the excerpt that speaks specifically of censorship by government entities, the report stated that Moraes “personally ordered the suspension of more than one hundred users’ profiles on the social media platform X (former Twitter), disproportionately suppressing the discourse of defenders of former President Jair Bolsonaro rather than taking more strict measures to penalize imminent illegal illegal actions.
This part of the report mentions the 38 -day period in which X was blocked in Brazil due to a decision by Moraes, which claimed to refuses from the company to appoint a legal representative in the country.
“Other media companies [social] were subject to similar orders of content removal. This wide repression blocked Brazilians’ access to information and points of view on a series of national and global issues, ”said the State Department.
The report also addressed other human rights issues in Brazil, such as reports of extrajudicial executions and torture by police and children’s marriages, and in the passage that deals with acts of anti -Semitism and anti -Semitic incitement, the department mentioned Lula’s statements about the war between Israel and the Hamas Terrorist group in the Gaza Strip.
“After Israel’s military response in Gaza to Hamas’s terrorist attacks in October 2023, on February 18, President Lula da Silva stated that ‘what is happening in the Gaza Strip … It is a genocide.’ In the speech, he compared what was happening in Palestine with ‘the moment Hitler decided to kill the Jews,’” said the state department.
The folder mentioned the response of the Israeli Confederation of Brazil (Conib), “stating that the government had adopted an extreme and unbalanced posture in relation to the tragic conflict in the Middle East.”
A Gazeta do Povo He asked the STF’s press office and to Itamaraty a position on the American report’s criticism, but has not yet received an answer. This text will be updated if there is return.
