Brazilian lawmakers appeal to international human rights org over state censorship efforts [Video]

Some Brazilian legislators, along with Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) International, are challenging Brazil’s censorship attempts this year before an international governing body, asking them to condemn the censorship and uphold free speech.

ADF International is representing five Brazilian legislators before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights regarding the country’s state-driven censorship crisis and their 39-day ban on X earlier this year. 

Senator Eduardo Girao, as well as members of the Chamber of Deputies Marcel Van Hattem, Adriana Ventura, Gilson Marques and Ricardo Salles, are asking the Commission to act swiftly to hold Brazil accountable for its free speech obligations and expose the country’s alleged censorial efforts. 

Van Hattemsaid Brazil has seen an egregious silencing of political voices, citizens, journalists or anyone else who might share different viewpoints from the government in recent years. He …