Brazil: Justice Moraes frees another 130 people arrested for demonstrations in Brasília

Justice Alexandre de Moraes of the Supreme Court (STF) granted, on Monday 13, provisional freedom to another 130 men accused of participating in the demonstrations of January 8 in Brasilia.

According to the press office of the STF, the Prosecutor General’s Office (PGR) approved granting freedom.

Moraes considered that the prisoners had already been indicted and no longer posed a risk to the process or society at this time to respond to the process at liberty.

In the decisions, the minister imposed preventive measures:

• Prohibition to be absent from the county and home recollection at night and on weekends using an electronic anklet;
• Obligation to appear before the enforcement court in the district of origin within 24 hours and weekly, every Monday;
• A ban on leaving the country, with the obligation to surrender his passports within five days;
• Cancellation of all passports issued by the Federative Republic of Brazil;
• Immediate suspension of any firearm documents in the name of the investigated, as well as CAC certificates;
• Prohibition of social networks’ use;
• Prohibition to communicate with the others involved by any means.

On January 9, the Federal Police (PF) arrested in flagrante delicto 2,151 people participating in the Brasilia demonstrations, camped in front of the Army barracks.

Of these, 745 were released after identification, more than two days after the arrest.

On that occasion, elderly people, disabled people, women with children, and even children were arrested.

Of the 1,406 subsequently arrested, 310 men and 82 women remain imprisoned.

So far, the PGR has denounced 919 people for public incitement to crime and criminal association.

Of these, 219 will also answer for more serious crimes – qualified damage, violent abolition of the rule of law, and coup d’état.

None will answer for terrorism, although the STF and part of the press continue to use this term to refer to the protesters.

With information from Revista Oeste