Brazil: Justice Moraes sends a request to Prosecutor to suspend (again) leading conservative congressman social networks
Justice Alexandre de Moraes of the Supreme Court (STF) gave the Prosecutor General’s Office (PGR) five days to comment on a request to suspend the social networks of leading conservative congressman Nikolas Ferreira (PL, right), for an alleged crime of transphobia, due to a speech on Women’s Day.
The lawsuit was filed with the STF by trans parliamentarian Erika Hilton (Psol-SP) on Monday (13) to block all of Ferreira’s social networks.
Currently, the congressman uses Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Telegram, and YouTube.
“Open the case file to the PGR, for manifestation on the request submitted by Federal Representative Erika Hilton, for the imposition of preventive measures against Federal Representative Nikolas Ferreira within five days,” Moraes dispatched.
NIKOLAS FERREIRA’S SPEECH
On March 8, federal congressman Nikolas Ferreira (PL-MG) wore a wig and defended women’s rights during a speech in the House of Representatives.
In the speech, the congressman from Minas Gerais rose to the rostrum of the House and said that real women are losing space to men who feel like women.
“For you to have an idea of how dangerous this is, they are trying to impose a reality that is not reality,” he observed.
In addition, Ferreira criticized the intolerance of the “leftists”.
According to the parliamentarian, ordinary citizens cannot express themselves freely in defense of “real” women because they can be called transphobic, homophobic, and discriminatory.
“I am not defending my navel, but your freedom,” the MP pointed out.
“The freedom, for example, of a father to refuse to allow a 6-foot-tall man, a grown man, into his daughter’s bathroom – without being considered transphobic.”
The next day, on his social network, the MP said that the reaction to his speech was just “hysteria and narrative.”
With information from Revista Oeste
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