CNJ and CNMP target transphobia and crimes against journalists – 06/23/2023 – Frederico Vasconcelos

At the request of Minister Rosa Weber, president of the STF and CNJ, the Observatory of Causes of Great Repercussion, which brings together the National Council of Justice and the National Council of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, will monitor controversial or lengthy processes involving cases of transphobia and intentional crimes against journalists.

Included in the Observatory’s agenda were, among others, the murder in Goiás of sports journalist Valério Luiz de Oliveira, in 2012, and that of young trans woman Laura Vermont, killed by five men in São Paulo.

As reported by Abraji (Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism), the broadcaster died when a man on a motorcycle fired six shots at him. The Goiás Civil Police concluded that the crime was ordered by Maurício Borges Sampaio, manager of Atlético Clube Goianense.

The case relating to Laura Vermont is pending before the 1st Jury of the Central Forum of São Paulo. In the judgment, last May, the Jury Court acquitted two of the five men who beat the young woman and sentenced three other defendants for minor bodily harm. The Public Prosecutor’s Office appealed and pointed to the partiality of the judge and the jurors.

A dossier from the National Association of Transvestites and Transsexuals (Antra) records that Brazil is the country that kills the most transgender people.

The Observatory will monitor the process related to the murders of the English journalist Dom Phillips and the Brazilian indigenist Bruno Araújo, in Atalaia do Norte (AM), in June 2022.

A further 18 cases of violent crimes against journalists were selected, mostly in cities in the interior.

Homicides in police operations or penal establishments will also be monitored, including the disappearance of seven prisoners from the Agricultural Penitentiary of Monte Cristo (PAMC), in 2017.

At the time, the Roraima government announced that they had escaped through a hole in the cell wall. Family members claim they were forcibly removed. The case was presented to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).

On the agenda of the collegiate are the processes of the rupture of dams in Brumadinho and Mariana (MG), the cases of the Chacina de Unaí (MG), the fire at the Kiss Nightclub (RS) and Autazes (AM) and actions on the rights of peoples indigenous people forwarded by the Supreme to the CNJ.

The general secretary of the CNJ, judge Gabriel Matos, says that these processes symbolize serious attacks on people, gender intolerance and threats to freedom of the press.

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