Opinion: indigenous leader Cererê will not be released by the Brazilian

Opinion: indigenous leader Cererê will not be released by the Brazilian Supreme Court and why that matters more than you think

Justice Luis Roberto Barroso of the Brazilian Supreme Court (STF) denied a request for the release of the Xavante Indian chief Cererê, temporarily detained by order of his fellow Justice Alexandre de Moraes.

Indigenous people have special protection under Brazilian law. This was so at least until Dec. 12, when an indigenous leader was arrested by order of self-proclaimed censorship czar Justice Alexandre de Moraes of the Supreme Court of Brazil for allegedly engaging in “illicit conduct and anti-democratic acts.”

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Cacique Cererê (“Chief Tserere”) of the Xavante Tribe dared to criticize the behavior of top electoral judges during the recent presidential election in Brazil, so he suffered aggression and was arrested by a new kind of tyranny-style police operation ordered by Moraes.

On the night of Dec. 13, Moraes was denounced before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights for violating several articles of the Pact of San José of Costa Rica, with the arrest of Cacique Cererê.

The complaint, signed by the Latin American Journalism Council, requests, as a matter of urgency, a precautionary measure for the International Court to recommend the immediate release of the indigenous leader because, according to Law 6001/73, Brazilian Indians are considered unimputable.

“The arrest of an indigenous person without due process of law and without respecting the status of indigenous peoples constitutes a crime against indigenous peoples,” states the complaint.

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