You cannot deliberately attack and humiliate, ignoring the principles of equality, just because you invoke freedom of expression.
Judge Luciana Teixeira
Vous ne pouvez pas délibérément attaquer et humilier, ignorant les principes d’égalité, simplement parce que vous invoquez la liberté d’expression.
Judge Luciana Teixeira
Context:
On 9 November 2017, the Court of Justice for the State of Rio de Janeiro sentenced Bolsonaro to pay a fine of R$150,000 for hate speech because of televised comments he made in 2011 to the CQC TV program, when Bolsonaro stated that “there is no risk” of his family producing a homosexual child because his children had a “good education”. Judge Luciana Teixeira said that the deputy had abused his right of free expression to commit a wrongful act. “You cannot deliberately attack and humiliate, ignoring the principles of equality, just because you invoke freedom of expression,” said the judge.