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August 9, 2019

Brazil's Supreme Court Blocks "Unambiguous Act of Censorship" Against Glenn Greenwald
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Brazil's Supreme Court has barred the government of far-right President
Jair Bolsonaro from launching an investigation into journalist Glenn
Greenwald and The Intercept Brasil. Last month, Bolsonaro threatened to
imprison Greenwald after he published leaked messages implicating
Justice Minister Sérgio Moro in a possible plot to smear and convict
former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. In a sweeping
ruling Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled the government's attempts to
investigate Greenwald and The Intercept violated Brazil's Constitution
and would "constitute an unambiguous act of censorship."


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