CCJ of the Chamber postpones vote on the project that grants amnesty to those investigated on January 8th
A collective request for review postponed, this Tuesday (8), the analysis of the bill that grants amnesty to people who participated in the criminal acts of January 8, 2023. The text is being processed by the Constitution and Justice Commission (CCJ ) of the Chamber.
The request for review has a deadline of two plenary sessions. This means that the project should return to the committee’s agenda next week.
The so-called “Amnesty PL” is analyzed together with six other projects on similar themes. The rapporteur, deputy Rodrigo Valadares (União-SE), presented a substitute that forgives anyone who participated, made donations or supported criminal acts from January 8th through social media until the future law comes into force.
However, the text also grants amnesty to those who participated in “subsequent events or events prior to the events that occurred on January 8, 2023, as long as they maintain a correlation with the events”. There is, therefore, no specific temporal delimitation.
Another pardon granted will be for fines applied by the Electoral or Common Court to individuals and legal entities as a result of the acts. The amnesty does not cover crimes against life, torture, terrorism and drug trafficking.
The pardon will be valid for “any measures restricting rights, including those imposed by injunctions, precautionary measures, final or unappealable sentences that limit freedom of expression and manifestation of a political and/or electoral nature, in the media, platforms and social media.”
The project also restores the political rights of the people who benefit. If the law is approved in both legislative Houses and sanctioned, the judicial authority responsible for the process must declare the sentence and all its effects extinct, without it being necessary to present a request for the defense of the person to be amnestied.
The proposal also promotes changes to the Penal Code to define that “mere financial, logistical or intellectual support for civic or political demonstrations” cannot be classified, in itself, as an “act of financing contrary to the legal system” when members of the movement “ come to act, eventually, with abuse of rights or misuse of purpose”.
