“>letter to the Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Council on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers of the United Nations requesting an inquiry into violations of judicial independence in Brazil’s federal court system.
Railing against the threats to his person and the grave risks to judicial independence implicated in the Belo Monte case, Campelo stated, “Not even during the dictatorship did this happen. One thing is to disagree with judicial decisions and address these through appropriate methods. Another is the failure to follow judicial decisions and even threaten judges. It will become like Venezuela where there is a judge who’s been imprisoned because she ruled against the government.”
• Read Telma Monteiro’s blog about Campelo’s removal
• Read Amazon Watch’s brief on the Belo Monte legal cases
