Brazil’s Supreme Court has barred the government of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro from launching an investigation into journalist Glenn Greenwald and The Intercept Brasil. Last month, Bolsonaro threatened to imprison Greenwald after he published leaked messages implicating Justice Minister Sérgio Moro in a possible plot to smear and convict former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. In a sweeping ruling Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled the government’s attempts to investigate Greenwald and The Intercept violated Brazil’s Constitution and would “constitute an unambiguous act of censorship.”
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