Brazilian congressman ordered to pay compensation over rape remark
Source: Associated Press
AP in São Paulo
Friday 18 September 2015 18.03 BST
A Brazilian judge has ordered a conservative Brazilian congressman to pay a colleague more than $2,500 for saying she wasn’t worth raping.
Judge Tatiana Dias da Silva ordered Jair Bolsonaro to pay Maria do Rosario 10,000 reals ($2,560) for saying last December in a newspaper interview that she is not “worth raping; she is very ugly”.
One day before the interview, Bolsonaro said on the floor of congress that Rosario had called him a “rapist” in 2003, adding that he would not rape her because she didn’t “deserve it”.
Lawmakers in Brazil enjoy parliamentary immunity, which protects their speech, opinions and votes in congress. However, Judge Silva said the immunity would not apply to Bolsonaro because he made similar remarks later in the interview.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/18/brazilian-congressman-rape-remark-compensation
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Published On: April 9, 2015
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In 2011, Jair Bolsonaro, a legislator with the conservative Progressive Party, said that it had never occurred to him that his sons would be gay because they had a “good education” by a present father. “So I don’t run that risk,” he said.
On Tuesday, April 14, a court in Rio de Janeiro ordered Bolsonaro to pay R$150,000 as a penalty for those remarks. The judge ruled that Bolsonaro enjoys the right of free speech, but that right should be exercised respecting the dignity and protection of all citizens.
“It’s not possible to deliberately attack and humiliate, ignoring the basic principles of equality and fairness, while citing the right to free speech,” Judge Luciana Santos Teixeira wrote. “The defendant clearly committed a civil injury by abusing his right to freedom of expression.”
Victor de Wolf, director of Diversity Group Niterói, one of the plaintiffs, showed satisfaction with the ruling: “For the first time, Bolsonaro has been condemned for what he says. This is symbolic, as it shows that people can’t say whatever comes into their heads. The fine is a good thing. Now Bolsonaro will feel in his pocket the seriousness of what he says,” de Wolf stated.
More:
http://curitibainenglish.com.br/government/improvements/guilty/
It's good to know there are intelligent judges in the Western Hemisphere. Not so many here, unfortunately!
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