Brazil Court Strikes Down Restrictions on University Speech

Expand Brazil´s Supreme Court meets on October 31, 2018. © 2018 Brazilian Supreme Federal Court Brazil´s Supreme Court issued an important decision striking down restrictions on political speech on university campuses in a unanimous ruling yesterday. Meanwhile, president-elect Jair Bolsonaro´s allies in Congress are pressing ahead with efforts to restrict what students and educators can discuss in the classroom. The court ruling overturned decisions by electoral court judges who recently ordered universities across the country to clamp down on what they considered illegal political campaigning.…

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