The subtle erosion of democracy in Latin America: the case of Lula in the Human Rights Committee

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Tainá Garcia Maia is a research fellow at the University of Münster (WWU), in Germany, and a PhD candidate at WWU and at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, in Brazil. She was a visiting professional at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (2018), and a Special Adviser at the Permanent Mission of Brazil to the United Nations (2015).

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The subtle erosion of democracy in Latin America: the case of Lula in the Human Rights Committee

June 3, 2022

Tainá Garcia Maia

On 12 March 2022, the Human Rights Committee delivered its views on the complaint filed by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, former President of the Federal Republic of Brazil who was imprisoned in 2018 in the context of the anti-corruption operation known as ‘Operation Car Wash (in Portuguese, ‘Operação Lava Jato’). The representatives of Lula asked the…