Moraes Blocks Doctrinal Military Work for Convicted Generals, Demands Administrative Alternatives

Overview

• In rulings on Jan. 22–23, Supreme Court minister Alexandre de Moraes barred retired General Mário Fernandes and ex–Navy commander Almir Garnier from tasks linked to doctrine, operations or systems intended to improve the Armed Forces.
• He directed the Army’s Comando Militar do Planalto and the Navy’s Operations Command to submit new work plans limited to internal administrative duties consistent with closed-regime custody.
• For Fernandes, the court rejected an intellectual plan involving review of doctrinal and literary materials and research via the EBConhecer portal, and it asked the Military Prosecutor’s Office and the Superior Military Court to evaluate loss of rank.
• For Garnier, Moraes struck down a high‑complexity plan involving decision‑support systems, operational evaluations and geostrategic studies, but authorized an escorted transfer for medical exams at the Brasília Naval Hospital with proof due within 24 hours.
• Moraes wrote that allowing convicted coup participants to contribute to the “aperfeiçoamento das Forças Armadas” is legally impossible and incompatible with democracy, while reaffirming that prison labor is a right that can reduce sentences.