“This is not about revenge. Criminal adjudication requires the judge to sterilize their subjectivity as much as possible, because judgment under Criminal Law is never purely retributive. We are not here to deal with an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.”

“The state’s response is not revenge, but it must be harsh in order to punish those who tried to bring an end to democracy in Brazil and failed.”

Alexandre de Moraes was born on the day the AI-5 was enacted. This is well known. But Filipe Martins was born on December 11, the birth date of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the most famous political prisoner in history and one of those responsible for the fall of the Soviet Union.

These people have no idea of the strength that God placed within Filipe. Write down what I’m saying: he will not stop fighting, whether imprisoned or free, until every injustice is exposed, known, and repaired.

Our struggle is only just beginning. We are already preparing the appeals that we will take to international courts to denounce this farce, and the first hearing of the Filipe Martins Case in the United States is already scheduled for January.