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EUGÊNIO ARAGÃO, jurist and lawyer; partner at Aragão e Ferraro Advogados, headquartered in Brasília-DF; public prosecutor retired by the Federal Public Ministry (1987-2017); Deputy Director-General of the Superior School of the Federal Public Ministry (2004-2008); coordinator of the 5th MPF Coordination and Review Chamber (2008-2011); Attorney General of the Interim Republic (2011); general auditor of the MPF (2011-2013); deputy electoral attorney general (2013-2015); Minister of Justice (2016); Professor of International Law and Criminal Law – Faculty of Law, University of Brasília (UnB); graduated in Law – UnB; Master in International Law – University of Essex – England; Doctor of Law – Rühr – Universität Bochum – Germany.

THE AWARENESS OF ILLEGALITY
Eugênio Aragão

It is not for the judge to say whether that individual is good or bad, if he is a scoundrel, good people and is being wronged. It is not worth saying this, this moral judgment is not the task of a bureaucrat, because, for this bureaucrat it is very difficult to know, because against factual, if in place of that other, would have acted differently.
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FLÁVIO DINO DE CASTRO E COSTA, governor of the State of Maranhão; lawyer; Master in Public Law; licensed professor of Law at the Federal University of Maranhão (UFMA); former federal deputy; federal judge for 12 years; secretary-general of the National Council of Justice (CNJ); president of the Association of Federal Judges of Brazil (Ajufe).

LAWFARE IN BRAZIL
Flávio Dino

How did Lawfare come about? What is its tangibility? What are the tools that we can recognize in lawfare practices in Brazil? There are five fundamental instruments or practices that demonstrate Lawfare in Brazil.
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Bachelor of Law, Biology and Agronomy; Master in Ecology – UFG; PhD in Environmental Sciences – UFG, postdoctoral fellow in Human Rights in the Comprehensive Postgraduate Program in Human Rights – PPGIDH – UFG; titular writer of Chair 29 – Patrono Attílio Corrêa Lima – Goiânia Academy of Letters; former secretary of the Environment of the Municipality of Goiânia and the State of Goiás.

WHAT IS LAWFARE?
Osmar Pires Martins Junior

The use of judicial process, through apparently legal procedures, for political purposes, is not new (KIRCHHEIMER, 1961). The novelty is revealed in the complexity of the strategic dimensions of Lawfare, which is not confused with the reciprocally associated concepts of judicialization of politics and politicization of the Judiciary.
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SÉRGIO MORO DRINKS FROM HIS POISON!
Osmar Pires Martins Junior

When Sérgio Moro was the all-rounder judge of Lava Jato Operation, He threw the weight of the State against whom he appointed the finger. He articulated support from part of the justice system (MPF, MPE, TRF-4, STJ, Federal Police) and state agents of the Federal Revenue Office, CGU, and TCU for their persecutory political purposes.
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BRAZIL`S ENSLAVEMENT ON THE GEOPOLITICAL ALTAR
José Carlos de Assis

Brazil’s political and military elites are condemning us to enslavement by the United States. Brazil is at the center of geopolitical conflict between Americans and Russians. Due to a double-crosser view of the 2015 coup-d´état supporters, the Brazilian elites proved to be vassals of American interests and unable to strategically see the advantages of neutrality between the two military superpowers.
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Communication consultant graduated in Social Communication – UnB-DF and post-graduated in Political Philosophy – UFPR, with specializations in Education – UCLA, Marketing – Northwestern University; Project Management – UCLA; Global Health – Johns Hopkins University; Medical Emergency – University of Colorado System; School Healthy for Children and Adolescents – University of Colorado System; Integrative Health and Medicine – University of Minnesota; Governance of the Third Sector – SUNNY, Information and Communication Technologies – UFG.

THE LAWFARE DEMOCRATIZATION
Fernando Fagundes Ferreira

Corruption is based on the offensive on democracy and the structure of the constitutional powers. Occasionally, it is chronic and other an acute disease, which concerns all political regimes to a minor or more comprehensive degree, causing affliction within the society.
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A new approach to lawfare practices in Brazil’s Reconstruction and Transformation Plan

For those who have not read, for the sake of truth, the petista document entitled “Plan of Reconstruction and Transformation of Brazil”, released on Monday, September 21, is not exactly a Plan, but a declaratory mix of intentions and ideas, in a format organized like a magazine, which contains several conjuncture problems considered a priority by the party chiefs and supposedly for their militancy.
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Pilha and Herzog confirm Brazilian society is no longer worried about human rights

Journalist Rodrigo Pilha was severely tortured while in the custody of the Federal Government for being framed under the new National Security Law, summarily, accused of waving a hand-painted flag in the Praça dos Três Poderes in Brasilia with the inscription “Genocidal Bolsonaro”. You don’t need to be a legal expert or have any notion of justice to know that this is an absurd arrest in legal terms. It is the right of Pilha or anyone else to take to the streets and complain that friends, acquaintances, and relatives are dead or dying because of the Bolsonaro government’s inaction regarding the COVID-19 pandemic.
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WHY JULIAN ASSANGE IS A TARGET OF LAWFARE AND WHAT HIS FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION HAS TO DO WITH IT

Journalist and editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks, Kristinn Hrafnsson, came to Brazil this week to gather support from newly elected President Luis Inácio Lula da Silva regarding the case of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Assange is currently the world’s greatest living journalist, although he is also the one who has suffered the longest period of time in captivity, being tortured day by day by unjust persecution and imprisonment. It has been almost eight years as a refugee inside the Ecuadorian embassy, near Buckingham Palace, plus another three years and six months as a prisoner in His Majesty’s Belmarsh Prison, 22 km away, in London.

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Brazilian Mission at the IACHR Attacks Freedom of Expression and Human Rights

The Pelicano Human Rights Network publicly denounces a serious attack on freedom of expression and the fundamental principles governing human rights, perpetrated by the Permanent Mission of Brazil to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR/OAS). Recently, the Brazilian Mission submitted a petition to the IACHR based on anonymous claims with ideologically false content, aiming to delegitimize a corruption complaint made by the Pelicano Network regarding judges from the Court of Justice of Sergipe. Worsening this international embarrassment, the Brazilian mission at the IACHR blocked the Pelicano Network on X/Twitter, silencing its legitimate criticisms and preventing the exercise of its right to freedom of expression. Read more

LEANDRO DEMORI, journalist, editor-in-chief of The Intercept Brasil website; graduated from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUC-RS); specialized in Investigative Journalism with an emphasis on mafia by the Investigative Journalism Association of Rome – Italy and certified as a web researcher by City University London – England.

CORRUPTION IS NOT FIGHTING BY ENGAGING IN CORRUPTION
Leandro Demori

For every journalist, what is the difference between the justice and revenge systems? Returning to the term omerta and the mafia systems, they live in a revenge system. They can even eventually promote justice, but in the middle of the road, they have committed many injustices and disrespected laws. A justice system cannot do this. Justice does not work by committing illegalities, for we must not fight corruption through corruption.
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