Brazilian censorship czar Alexandre de Moraes is charged at the International Court of Justice for the arrest of indigenous leader

Topsy-turvy world. For years, the mainstream media has reported that Bolsonaro and the Brazilian right have persecuted the indigenous population while the left is trying to “save” them.

There was even talk of genocide. And now this.

The country’s censorship czar Alexandre de Moraes, who is in bed with the left, arrests an indigenous leader without due process, and the right is trying to get him released.

On Tuesday evening (Dec. 13), the Justice of the Supreme Court and president of the Electoral Tribunal in personal union, Alexandre de Moraes, was indicted before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights for having violated several articles of the Pact of San José in Costa Rica with the arrest of Cacique Cererê Xavante of the Xavante tribe.

The complaint, signed by the Latin American Council of Journalism, requests an injunction for the International Court to recommend the immediate release of the indigenous leader, who, according to Law 6001/73, is considered unimputable.

“The arrest of an indigenous person without due legal process and respect for the statute of indigenous peoples constitute a crime against indigenous peoples as provided for in Article 58 and aggravated by Article 59.”

“The indigenous person arrested is a Chieftain and leader of the Xavante people, so his arrest represents an act against all the indigenous people of his ethnicity as provided for in Article 59 of Law 6001/73,” the complaint states.

The denunciation was filed by the lawyer Ricardo Freire Vasconcelos, a lawyer for the conservative journalist Oswaldo Eustáquio, and a member of the group Lawyers of the Brazilian Right.

See the full complaint here.

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