A step backwards in Brazil

"A military member of the Armed Forces doesn't act as a private citizen, but as the State itself, under its supreme power, and deserves to be judged by a specialized judiciary."

Brazil's Minister of Defense, commenting here on President Michel Temer's approval of legislation transferring from civilian to military jurisdiction serious cases in which the victim is a civilian and the perpetrator is a member of the armed forces

The George III Award for retrograde legislation is hereby conferred on Mr. Temer and the Brazilian Congress.