District deputy Fábio Felix (PSOL), president of the Commission for the Defense of Human Rights of the Legislative Chamber of the Federal District, asked the Attorney General’s Office to investigate the attacks suffered by journalists who covered the expulsion of deputy Glauber Braga (PSOL-RJ) from the plenary of the Chamber.
During Glauber’s retirement, the press was unable to record footage of legislative police using force to expel the parliamentarian. Only deputies had access to the premises. Confusion over the eviction continued throughout the green room, with journalists, police and lawmakers in a tumult of shoving and assaulting.
In the document, Fábio Felix affirms that, “as widely reported by press professionals, parliamentarians and the images that circulated publicly, journalists, cameramen and photographers were physically and verbally attacked by security agents of the Chamber, prevented from carrying out their functions, expelled from the plenary and the galleries and subjected to illegitimate constraints”.
The district deputy claims that this episode demonstrates “a clear violation of the Federal Constitution and international human rights treaties which guarantee freedom of expression and information.”
“It is necessary to determine the political and administrative responsibility of the president of the session, the deputy Hugo Motta, whether by direct order or by omission in the face of manifestly abusive and violent behavior carried out by agents who were then under his functional coordination,” affirms the representation.
The district deputy believes that the actions of the legislative police, instead of guaranteeing the functioning of work and the integrity of those present, have become “an instrument of intimidation, aggression and restriction of journalistic activity”.
For Félix, the action constitutes “the practice of criminal offenses and acts of administrative improbity, which can include bodily harm, abuse of authority, illegal embarrassment and other typical figures related to the excessive use of force and the obstruction of the professional activity of journalists, requiring rapid, rigorous and independent action on the part of the Public Prosecutor’s Office”.
In addition to opening an investigation, listening to the victims, parliamentarians, security agents involved and the authorities responsible for conducting the session, Félix also requests internal images, official documents from the Chamber of Deputies and other elements to clarify the episode and identify all responsibilities, in the civil, administrative and criminal fields.
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