Renowned Brazilian musical artists are expected to participate in acts against the National Congress planned for this Sunday (12/14) in several cities across the country.
In Rio de Janeiro, the demonstration at Copacabana will host confirmed performances by Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil and Paulinho da Viola. The program also includes performances by Duda Beat, Emicida, Fernanda Abreu, Baco Exu do Blues, Xamã, Lenine and Tony Bellotto.
The demonstrations take place after the approval of the bill on dosimetry by the Chamber of Deputies last Wednesday (12/10). The text could reduce the sentences of those convicted of the acts of January 8 and benefit former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL), convicted by the Federal Supreme Court for attempted coup d’état.
The act in Rio was called “Musical Act 2: The Return.” The name refers to the mobilization carried out in September in several capitals against the Blindagem PEC and to the amnesty proposals for those guilty of the coup attempt, which also brought together several artists in the capital Rio de Janeiro and in São Paulo.
PL dosimetry
The proposal approved by the House last Wednesday (10/12), the target of protests across the country, provides for changes in the types of crimes accepted for sentence progression – a mechanism that allows prisoners with good behavior to migrate from the closed regime to the semi-open or open regime. According to the text, this change will occur after serving one-sixth of the sentence, and no more than one-quarter. The rule does not apply to people convicted of heinous crimes or repeat offenders.
The draft also changes the parameters of crimes against the democratic rule of law, such as coup attempts and violent abolition of the democratic rule of law.
With the text of dosimetry, if we strictly follow the agreement of the rapporteur, deputy Paulinho da Força (Solidariedade-SP), the sentence of former president Jair Bolsonaro would increase from 27 years and 3 months to 20 years and 8 months, leaving him to serve only 2 years and 4 months in a closed regime, taking into account the remission of the sentence for the period of home detention.
The PL Dosimetry will now be submitted for analysis to the Federal Senate. The government base is articulating strategies to prevent the text from moving forward as it was approved in the House. The plenary vote is scheduled for Wednesday (12/17).
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