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Brazilian congressman charged for rape comment

A male lawmaker has been charged with incitement to rape for public comments he made about a female colleague on the floor of Brazil's Congress and repeated in a news interview, the Attorney General's Office said Tuesday.

 

The office's website reported that Deputy Attorney General Ela Wiecko filed the charges on Monday against Congressman Jair Bolsonaro for "for publicly inciting the crime of rape."

 

Bolsonaro said last week in Congress that Representative Maria do Rosario, who had previously presided over the National Human Rights Council, had called him a "rapist" in 2003, but he would not rape her because she didn't "deserve it."

 

"His words encourage men to rape women they feel deserve to be raped," Wiecko was quoted as saying on the website.

 


פרסום ראשון: 12.16.14, 18:23