Parliamentarians from the NOVO Party filed a Request for Information (RIC) to hear the Minister of Human Rights, Silvio Almeida, about a meeting with Iran’s ambassador, Hossein Gharibi, on January 19 this year.The government in Tehran is a dictatorship and has historically funded the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, which launched terrorist attacks against Israel on Sept. 7.
“Why the preference for receiving Iran’s ambassador over so many other nations that to date have not been received by the minister of human rights through his official representatives? And does this have anything to do with the fact that the minister took a long time to speak out about the Hamas terrorist attacks and so far has not called Hamas a terrorist organization?” asked federal deputy Marcel Van Hattem (Novo-RS).
The petition is signed by Van Hatten and signed by deputies Adriana Ventura (Novo-SP) and Gilson Marques (Novo-SC).
The meeting of Lula’s human rights minister with the Iranian ambassador is also a contradiction because Iran’s reputation for committing human rights abuses is notorious. The most symbolic recent case was the death of young Mahsa Amini, who was arrested in 2022 by Iran’s customs police for not properly wearing a veil to cover her hair.
She was assaulted and died in custody. The episode sparked a series of protests, which were more violently suppressed by the Iranian government.
The questions come at a time when the President of the Republic, Lula and his party (PT) clearly disclose their preference for Hamas terrorists. In the midst of the massacre that took place in Israel, from which so far three Brazilians have been killed.
The deputies of Novo question why the ministry only recorded the meeting on February 16, almost 30 days after it happened, and published it on the 17th of the same month. Despite being included in the spreadsheet provided by the ministry, the meeting is not registered in the folder’s virtual agenda. According to Decree 10,889/2021, ministers of state must register their events on the day and publish them up to seven days after the event.
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The actual date of the meeting can be confirmed in a post made by the ambassador himself on “X”, formerly Twitter, on January 19.
“The first official meeting with the new members of the cabinet: Brazil’s Minister of Human Rights and Citizenship. Mr. Lula’s government is very interested in human rights. There are excellent reasons for dialogue, cooperation and the exchange of useful/constructive experiences for social development. Political Abuse and Double Standards: Great Enemies of the promotion of human rights,” Gharibi said.
Another question raised by the parliamentarians is the duplicity of the registration of the meeting. On September 5, the minister released a second record of the same meeting between Silvio Almeida and Gharibi.
“This government has shown a predilection for dictatorships over democracies since even before it took office and now we see once again that also in practice, not only in speech, the preference for a regime that oppresses its citizens through human rights violations has been clear on the part of the Minister of Human Rights, a huge contradiction. Meanwhile, the government refuses to call the Hamas group a terrorist. We need to clarify these facts with the government andand expose to society what Lula and his ministers really stand for. I think that’s it,” Van Hatten said.
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