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Judi Lynn

(160,682 posts)
Thu Jan 24, 2019, 08:00 PM Jan 2019

Prominent gay congressman flees Brazil, citing death threats

Source: Reuters


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JAN 25, 2019

WASHINGTON - A prominent gay congressman in Brazil announced on Thursday that he was leaving his job and fleeing the country because of increased death threats made against him.

Jean Wyllys, the country’s first openly gay congressman, told the Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper that he had left Brazil and was going to work in academia, with no plans to return home.

“Preserving a life under threat is also a strategy to fight for better days,” Wyllys wrote on Twitter with a link to the article.

. . .

Wyllys, who was re-elected to a third term in parliament last October, had received numerous death threats in the past, but according to the report in Folha, these had intensified significantly since the killing last March of Wyllys’ close friend, Marielle Franco, a Rio de Janeiro councilwoman.

Read more: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/25/world/politics-diplomacy-world/prominent-gay-congressman-flees-brazil-citing-death-threats/#.XEpQ9VxKjIU

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Prominent gay congressman flees Brazil, citing death threats (Original Post) Judi Lynn Jan 2019 OP
Disgusting! Behind the Aegis Jan 2019 #1
The Evangelical Taliban has similar plans for America too. Dawson Leery Jan 2019 #2
Exactly the reason we are better off with Pence right where he is and as far away Doremus Jan 2019 #3
I agree. LuvNewcastle Jan 2019 #6
Death threats are a symptom of a very sick society. Initech Jan 2019 #4
Sad what's happening to Brazil cgralow Jan 2019 #5

Dawson Leery

(19,348 posts)
2. The Evangelical Taliban has similar plans for America too.
Fri Jan 25, 2019, 03:34 PM
Jan 2019

Which is why they must be considered an equal threat to the Jihadists, if not greater.

Doremus

(7,261 posts)
3. Exactly the reason we are better off with Pence right where he is and as far away
Fri Jan 25, 2019, 04:10 PM
Jan 2019

from the oval office as possible.

He is the religous right's wet dream.

Initech

(100,146 posts)
4. Death threats are a symptom of a very sick society.
Fri Jan 25, 2019, 10:47 PM
Jan 2019

Although not to point fingers, I think I know where this shit might be coming from *COUGH* Russia *COUGH*. Excuse me.

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