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Weekly Report - 26 June 2008 (ISSN 1741-7422)

BRAZIL: Congressmen seek to scrap privileges

A congressional committee unanimously approved a proposal to scrap judicial privileges to holders of public office last week. Such privileges allowed them to escape punishment, as cases could only be judged by well-disposed supreme court judges. But as the supreme court has started to take a tougher line on corrupt politicians in recent months, congressmen acted to eliminate their privileges without which cases against them, and other public office holders, would be judged by common courts, which despite delivering tougher sentences in corruption cases, allow for endless appeals.

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