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23 statements · 1 politicians · October 1, 2025
Statements by Sérgio Moro. 23 transcribed statements, with topic and stance on the ones the analysis classified. Topics: Religious Freedom / Free Expression, Judiciary, Combating Impunity.
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- For
About: protect freedom of expression
Thank you very much, Mr. President. Colleagues, Senators and Senatoresses, I came today to celebrate a decision handed down by the courts of my state, the State of Paraná, and it is a victory for freedom of expression.
- For
About: protect freedom of expression
It is also a victory for Justice, but above all it guarantees the freedom of expression and opinion and the right of every citizen to criticize.
- For
About: protect freedom of expression
I am specifically referring here to the acquittal, on the merits, of Delegado KIQ, a valiant agent of the Civil Police of the State of Paraná, who also served two terms as Mayor of the City of Paranavaí.
It so happened that, in 2022, during an electoral event, already in the second round, he was not a candidate at that time, but there was an event in which someone, dressed in a prisoner's outfit, went onto the stage and there was a simulation of that individual's arrest and an indication that this individual would represent the then presidential candidate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
And Delegado KIQ would have then, in that episode, indicated that he was a thief, someone who had committed crimes.
- Neutral
About: recognize criminal convictions in higher courts
We can discuss that fact, but let us acknowledge here that there was a conviction in three instances of President Lula.
- For
About: preserve evidence and uphold convictions in corruption cases
Later, the convictions were annulled; we do not dispute that point, but an annulment on merely formal grounds, with which I myself respectfully disagree — I understand that, at bottom, there was indeed an annulment for political reasons.
But, as a result of that episode, in which... Incidentally, former President Lula was never declared innocent by the courts.
- For
About: protect freedom of expression
But, as a result of that episode, Delegado KIQ was charged with the crime of electoral defamation by the Public Prosecutor's Office there in the State of Paraná, and he defended himself in court, first by challenging the very facts narrated in the indictment, but also by mounting a vehement defense of freedom of expression.
- Ambiguous
About: investigate and prosecute corruption scandals
If there was a conviction in three instances of President Lula for crimes of corruption and money laundering in the Petrobras case; if there were also scandals in the past of the Lula government, such as the mensalão case, that characterization is open to debate and there are arguments on both sides.
But the fact is that our courts never declared President Lula innocent in those episodes.
- For
About: protect freedom of expression
So, with that fact within the scope of the political dispute and debate of our time, it is evident that it is entirely unreasonable and arbitrary to bring charges against a citizen who simply exercised his freedom of expression and stated his opinion, believing, yes, that Lula is responsible for those crimes.
- Against
About: create legal mechanisms that enable censoring opinions
One can, yes, rebut; one can, yes, counter-argue, but never use the mechanisms of the justice system to seek to curtail public debate, to seek to curtail political debate regarding this matter.
- For
About: act as a defense witness in cases criminalizing political expression
When Delegado KIQ told me that he had been charged, I immediately understood that the measure was unjust and arbitrary, and I offered to appear as a witness in the case, a defense witness.
- For
About: act as a defense witness in cases criminalizing political expression
Said and done, I traveled to the city of Paranavaí, to the hearing, to tell the judge and the prosecutor, above all, the defense of freedom of expression, the defense of people's right to express their thoughts without any kind of censorship or any form of undue coercion or duress.
- Neutral
About: acquit accused when expression is an exercise of opinion
After some time, to my positive surprise, the acquittal was pronounced, so Delegado KIQ was declared innocent.
It was not found that a crime of electoral defamation was present there and, likewise, a pleasant surprise was that there was no appeal by the Public Prosecutor's Office, which recognized the inappropriateness of the indictment, which recognized that the indictment was precipitate and that it would not be proper to accuse Delegado KIQ of electoral defamation merely for having expressed his opinion that Lula had committed those crimes related to the Petrobras theft.
- For
About: protect freedom of expression
This is open to history, open to debate, and we cannot have curtailed this kind of discussion.
- For
About: protect freedom of expression
A great victory of our time for freedom of expression, unfortunately often here being excessively restricted by judicial decisions with which we do not agree.
- For
About: guarantee free public debate
Debate on public matters must be free and may be vehement; it may indeed be unpleasant to established authorities.
- For
About: guarantee free public debate
Of course I do not defend any kind of insult or aggression, or any kind of physical violence, but debate, yes, must be free and unrestricted.
- For
About: protect freedom of expression
Freedom of expression is a right not only fundamental to the development of human personality, but is also essential for the proper functioning of democracy.
- For
About: protect freedom of expression
So, this is a date for us to celebrate on account of the acquittal of Delegado KIQ and, more than that, for the victory of freedom of expression and broad public debate. (During the speech d
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