Amnesty is to benefit the masterminds of the coup plot and the Supreme Court should not review sentences, says Gilmar Mendes

Last Monday, the 14th, Congressman Sóstenes Cavalcante (PL-RJ) filed an urgent request to bring to the plenary the bill that grants amnesty to those involved in the coup attacks of January 8, 2023. The proposal, which aims to pardon the crimes of January 8 and future acts against the Democratic Rule of Law, reveals the fragility of Brazilian democracy. Philosopher and professor Vladimir Safatle is this week's Pauta Pública interviewee to analyze…

Minister Gilmar Mendes, of the Supreme Federal Court (STF), criticized the proposed amnesty for those involved in the January 8 acts during an interview with the newspaper O Globo, published this Thursday, the 17th. The minister stated that the project actually seeks to protect “mentors” from a “scam plot” and warned of the seriousness of the episode. “People are minimizing what happened,” he said. “It was seen in this investigation that there w…

Mendes also said he hopes the trial involving former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL) ends this year.