Indict Jair Bolsonaro over indigenous rights, international court is urged
Dom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro
Brazilian lawyers and an influential human rights group including six former government ministers are seeking to indict the far-right president Jair Bolsonaro at the International Criminal Court for encouraging genocide against Brazil’s indigenous people.
Brazil’s Human Rights Advocacy Collective (CADHu) and the Dom Paulo Evaristo Arns Commission for Human Rights (Arns Commission) delivered an “informative note†to Fatou Bensouda, prosecutor at the international tribunal in the Hague late on Wednesday. It requested a “preliminary investigation of incitement to genocide and widespread systematic attacks against indigenous peoples†by Bolsonaro.
Bensouda will now consult Brazilian state governments, the United Nations, NGOs and other sources to decide whether to request authorisation for an investigation, the groups said.
Read more at: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/indict-jair-bolsonaro-over-indigenous-rights-international-court-is-urged/ar-BBXrzfa
Brazil related, remember, a story from
the "Intercept" was posted the other day, it is a project of Glen Greenwald, yes, who is a gay dude and I think his "husband" is Brazilian and they are down there.
Glenn Greenwald: I Was Assaulted Live On Air. This Is Bolsonaro’s Brazil.
The president’s political movement regards journalists as obstacles and prefers intimidation and violence to civic discourse.
By Glenn Greenwald
The author is a journalist and co-founding editor of The Intercept.
Nov. 25, 2019
RIO DE JANEIRO — On Nov. 7, I was physically assaulted by a far-right, pro-Bolsonaro pundit, Augusto Nunes, at a television and radio studio in São Paulo while we were live on the air.
This is the latest, and perhaps most vivid, example of journalists and news organizations in Brazil being threatened, menaced and subjected to actual violence by the Bolsonaro movement, all for doing our jobs.
The episode illustrates how press freedoms and the democratic order in Brazil are endangered — not just with words, but violence — by this authoritarian movement that now wields power in the world’s fifth-most-populous country.
Read more at: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/25/opinion/glenn-greenwald-bolsonaro-brazil.html
