Marcos Rogério: This is a basic principle of law. Now, at the same time, it is important to ask: would the use of extradition in this case be a type of persecution of the whistleblower?
Marcos Rogério: Wouldn't that drive away whistleblowers? And here I am issuing a warning, because what is being done now to this former court staffer, this former aide, is also a message to any whistleblower.
And then you have the State, through one of its branches, the Judiciary, saying clearly: "Look, depending on who denounces, the State, which should protect the whistleblower in order to investigate the content brought to the public, will invert: instead of looking at the facts, it will look at the whistleblower, to disqualify him or to lock him up behind bars!"
Marcos Rogério: And I ask: would this not drive away whistleblowers, journalists or citizens who are willing to reveal irregularities in public administration and, above all — I warn here — in the Judiciary?
Marcos Rogério: We are faced with a question that must be placed on the debate.