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Justice suspends campaign against social distancing measures

31/03/2020

Justice Luís Roberto Barroso, of the Brazilian Federal Supreme Court (STF), granted an injunction to prohibit the production and circulation, by any means, of campaigns suggesting that the population should return to its full activities or that minimize the gravity of the coronavirus pandemic. The justice also ordered the non-hiring of any advertising campaign with the same purpose.

The decision was handed down in the Fundamental Precept Non-compliance Arguits (ADPFs) 668 and 669, filed by the National Confederation of Metallurgical Workers (CNTM) and the Sustainability Network party against the announcement of the hiring by the federal government of the advertising campaign "Brazil Cannot Stop", whose preliminary video would have been aired in the government Instagram and disseminated through the WhatsApp application.

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