![]() ![]() She left Brazil and now lives between the United States and Europe. The Workers’ party provided security when she ran for governor of Rio – but it ended after she lost the election. Tiburi’s Rio apartment was broken into but nothing taken rightwing activists began disrupting her book events online threats said she would be shot during a book signing. Marcia Tiburi: ‘There has been a witch-hunt in Brazil.’ Photograph: Courtesy Marcia Tiburi In 2018, two paramilitaries – both former police officers – were arrested for killing Marielle Franco, a 38-year-old Rio councillor known for defending the city’s black, LGBT and favela communities. While he was a state legislator in Rio, the president’s son Flávio employed the wife and mother of one paramilitary leader who is now on the run. These powerful mafia groups include serving and former police officers and have been linked to the Bolsonaro family. Marcia Tiburi, a prolific writer and university professor, was told last year by police contacts that paramilitary gangs were “watching her”. “They clearly said I would die when Bolsonaro became president.” “Even with a police escort, people threatened me openly,” he said. In November, the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights asked Brazil to protect him and his family. Last year it was extended to cover him outside congress and in Rio, and a bulletproof car was provided, but taken back before the election campaign. In 2017, Wyllys was given police protection inside congress. Fake news stories claimed he had defended paedophilia Bolsonaro – then a congressman – targeted Wyllys with homophobic insults and even told a television interviewer that Wyllys was “stimulating paedophilia”. The abuse and threats against Jean Wyllys began when he entered congress in 2011. “Leaving Brazil has a tremendous impact,” she said. Diniz left Brazil after the hearing and is now working as a visiting researcher at Brown University in the United States her husband is unemployed and she is far from her ageing parents. Threats to kill her and massacre her students and colleagues at the University of Brasília arrived via WhatsApp and email. The four exiles all describe a cocktail of threats from paramilitary gangs, rightwing extremists and a nihilistic dark-web forum whose users spew hate for leftists, women and black people.Īt times those threats coincided with abuse or defamatory lies shared online by high-profile followers of Brazil’s far-right president.ĭiniz was put under police protection weeks before an unprecedented supreme court hearing last year to discuss decriminalising abortion. Anderson França: ‘People like me are not safe in Brazil today.’ Photograph: Theo Tajes ![]()
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