A judge overturned the warrant for the arrest of a prominent member of Brazil’s Landless Workers Movement on 17 October 2007 ruling that the facts and evidence were untenable. This was the third warrant issued for the arrest of Jaime Amorin, indicating a pattern of harassment to stop his work promoting the rights of workers affected by the unjust distribution of land in Brazil.
Jaime was detained last August and the charges revoked when a judge outlined a failure to demonstrate justification for preventative imprisonment. Leaving the detention centre, Jaime said: “My arrest was politically motivated, with the clear objective of demoralizing and isolating the MST, criminalizing the social movements that fight for Agrarian Reform even more”. Jaime also faces criminal charges of causing damage during a demonstration against the visit of George Bush to Brazil in November last year.
Over the past 20 years, Brazil’s Landless Workers Movement has not only led land occupations but also built schools, clinics, a national university–level training center and many regional training centers and has increased the number of teachers in country by the thousands. 
