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Sunday, September 20, 2015

Brazilian MP fined $2,560 for telling ‘ugly’ colleague she was not ‘worth raping’




(RT News)  -  A Brazilian congressman has been ordered to pay his fellow MP more than $2,500 in moral damages for telling her she was “very ugly” and not “worth raping,” after she allegedly called him a rapist during last year’s debates in congress about sexual violence.
Congressman Jair Bolsonaro was found guilty of an unacceptable attack on Maria do Rosario Nunes during a speech delivered in the House in December last year. The subsequent comments were made the following day in an interview with a newspaper. Judge Tatiana Dias da Silva of the 18th Civil Court of Brasília, ruled that 59-year-old Bolsonaro must pay 10,000 Brazilian reals ($2,560) and publicly retract his statements.
While Brazilian politicians have immunity from prosecution for any comments made inside Congress, they are subject to the law outside the legislative chambers.
The unpleasant comment was made last December during a heated debate in Congress about sexual violence in Brazil, when the opposition congressman Bolsonaro told Nunes he would not rape her “because she was not worth it.” Rosario had called him a “rapist” prior to that.
“Stay here Maria do Rosario!” he yelled as Nunes walked out of the session. “It’s been several days since you called me a rapist, and I said that I did not rape you because you weren't worth it!”
Nunes filed a complaint, accusing her colleague of slander and public incitement to rape.
“I am not doing it for me, but for all Brazilian women, because no one deserves to be raped. I do not accept in Parliament or anywhere, the incitement to rape,” said Nunes, a minister for Human Rights at the time.
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