00:00Brazil's labor unions and social movements came out to the streets in cities across the
00:05country today to commemorate International Human Rights Day and demand the arrest of
00:09former President Jair Bolsonaro.
00:11Our correspondent Brian Meir has more details.
00:15Thousands of Brazilian social movement and labor union activists took to the streets
00:18in 16 of the nation's largest cities on December 10th to demand that no amnesty is given to
00:24former President Jair Bolsonaro and 36 of his cronies who were indicted on November
00:3021st for plotting a violent military coup to prevent Lula da Silva from taking power
00:35after winning the elections in 2022.
00:40We see with the discovery of the assassination plot against President Lula, his Vice President
00:45and the Supreme Court Minister Alexander de Moraes that the situation was even worse than
00:50we had thought.
00:51So we're here today to say, no amnesty, because they tried to take power away from the working
00:55class.
00:59Leaders of Brazil's far right have been working to delegitimize Brazil's court system while
01:03lobbying Congress to pass a law granting amnesty for the hundreds of people who've already
01:08been indicted for the failed coup plot.
01:10But since new evidence released by the federal police shows that they were planning much
01:14more violence than previously thought, the amnesty movement is losing steam.
01:19This is why the social movements believe it is important to increase pressure on Congress
01:24now.
01:27Our challenge is to defeat the logic of a bourgeois justice system which punishes the poor but
01:31doesn't punish the rich and their coup plotting generals.
01:35This logic has been ingrained in the Brazilian system since the military dictatorship, when
01:39the military coup plotters tortured, raped and killed thousands of people and haven't
01:44been punished to this day.
01:45This is why we are fighting for punishment for both Bolsonaro, his coup mongering generals
01:50and for those behind the 1964 coup.
01:54Brazil's attorney general, Paulo Gano, is expected to file criminal charges against
01:59Bolsonaro and his cronies shortly after the new year.
02:04Brian Meir, tell us sir, Recife.
02:09In Brazil, union members and protesters gather in Brasilia to voice their opposition against
02:13an amnesty request for prisoners who took part in a 2022 coup plot to prevent President
02:20Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva from taking office.
02:24The main purpose of today's demonstration is to oppose any possibility of amnesty for
02:29those responsible for the coup attempts and for what we can call the continuing coup that
02:34was the entire previous government.
02:39I and all the other citizens gathered here are against any possibility of amnesty for
02:43the coup plotters who tried to attack Brazilian democracy.
02:48With coups and assassinations against the authorities in power, we have always tried
02:52to make it very clear that this kind of anti-democratic attitude, this kind of anti-democratic planning
02:57has to be dealt with rigorously under the law.
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