Overview
- Agostina Páez, 29, remains under house arrest in Rio de Janeiro after a mid‑January video from an Ipanema bar showed her making gestures prosecutors allege constitute injuria racial.
- Brazilian authorities retained her passport, placed an electronic ankle monitor, and restricted her movements as the case proceeds.
- The Rio de Janeiro Public Prosecutor’s Office formally opposed allowing her to travel back to Argentina, citing judicial control and potential enforcement concerns.
- Her defense says the case has not been sent to trial and is awaiting a ruling on a habeas corpus request, with no hearing date confirmed.
- Páez’s Instagram statement for International Women’s Day claims she was sexualized, ridiculed, and threatened, and it criticizes the process under Brazil’s 2023 law that equates injuria racial with racism and carries potential two‑ to five‑year sentences plus fines.