Crime Against Religious Liberty

Religious Racism

Abstract

This article is the result of one of the Supervised Practical Activities - APS, in the Graduate Law course at UNIP, which aimed to identify, in a document authored by the Legislative Assembly of the state of Rio de Janeiro - ALERJ, crucial information about the theme of religious racism, in addition to producing legal commentary on the practices reported in that document and the violation of criminal law, aiming to identify illegal practices committed and the penalties that should be applied. Religious racism as a discriminatory attitude marked between the lines of the document providing the ALERJ Commission on Human Rights and Citizenship with the denouncement meeting, whose Report should be used to denounce the situation to the United Nations - UN. It was clear that acts committed against terreiros and communities that took place in 2019 were the ones that most substantiated the document. Among the acts contrary to human rights, the following were identified: aggression, threats and attacks on African-based religions, in addition to attacks against religious temples, in an explicit context of crimes against religious sentiment, and which needs to mark the proposals for the containment of such acts, so that religious freedom dignifies people who in good faith practice their liturgies.