I'm particularly gratified because Vladimir Herzog was an extraordinary human being with an amazing story: a Jewish immigrant to Brazil who became a leading journalist against the military dictatorship, which kidnapped & tortured him to death, then lied & said he killed himself:
As is known, the monsters who tortured & murdered Vladimir Herzog are admired by those now in power in Brazil, who want to replicate that regime. Herzog's heroic son created & runs an institute devoted to defending Brazil's democracy. An amazing story: www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/…
Herzog's barbaric murder by Brazil's US/UK-suported military regime shocked & outraged the Brazilian public & is widely credited as a key catalyst to Brazil's re-democratization. A 1975 NYT article on his murder & the lie that he killed himself: nytimes.com/1975/11/30/arc…
Also notable: this award is also going to an amazing reporter, @camposmello of @folha, who broke the biggest story of the 2018 election: how the Bolsonaro campaign was fueled by illegal, secret funds from oligarchs for WhatsApp messaging. She was threatened & harassed for months:
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Last night @elonmusk vowed to honor the endless, repressive and due-process-free censorship orders from Brazil's Judge Alexandre de Moraes.
The Judge has banned various journalists and members of Congress, among others, from social media.
This would be a huge deal for Brazil:
Rumble last year also announced that it would refuse to comply. The platform was expending huge resources to constantly take down videos and ban users upon the endless, lawless orders of a single job.
Amazingly, Rumble is no longer available to anyone in Brazil, getting this:
In January of last year, we obtained one of the secret orders Judge Moraes issues to platforms. This one banned Senators, Congress members and journalists, and mandated secrecy.
No due process. We reported it here. Hard to overstate how extreme it is:
UK Court hands Assange a partial victory in the Biden DOJ's attempt to extradite him.
US must provide explicit assurances that Assange 1) can raise a 1st Am defense, 2) will have the same rights as US citizens and 3) will never face the death penalty.
Biden WH doesn't want the sideshow of a trial; daily protests; discovery into CIA; Assange on the stand; Biden as the first-ever president to imprison a publisher.
They want to kill Assange through conviction-free imprisonment.
How dare the US President weigh in on a war he has caused American citizens to finance, arm and support!
Look at the mentality of these Israel fanatics: the duty of American citizens is not only to finance Israel's military and wars, but also never question what Israel does: