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UN rapporteur says release of video defending 64 coup is unacceptable.

The UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion of Truth, Justice and Reparation, Fabián Salvioli, considers the decision by the Presidential Palace to release a video defending the 1964 coup d'état to be "an unacceptable setback." This information comes from Jamil Chade on his blog.

UN rapporteur says release of video defending 64 coup is unacceptable.

247 - The UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion of Truth, Justice and Reparation, Fabián Salvioli, considers the decision by the Presidential Palace to release a video defending the 1964 coup d'état to be "an unacceptable setback." This information comes from Jamil Chade on his blog.

"For Salvioli, the gesture adopted by the presidency is 'an offense against the victims who have not yet been compensated'."

"On Friday, the UN rapporteur had already asked Jair Bolsonaro to reconsider his recommendation to hold an 'appropriate commemoration' of the military coup that occurred against Brazilian democracy in 1964," indicates Jamil Chade.

"Salvioli did not hold back in his criticism of the government. In a rare gesture, he even went so far as to call the president's initiative 'immoral'."

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