MC Poze Convicted for Online Insult, Ordered to Community Service

Overview

• Judge Juliana Benevides fixed a three-month detention sentence on Thursday, July 9, 2026, and converted it to three months of community service because Poze is a first-time offender and the penalty is under four years.
• The court found that an April 2024 post on X calling a woman 'bolo fofo' showed direct intent to injure her honor and dismissed the defense claim that the remark was only a joke.
• The judge accepted screenshots of the public post as reliable evidence, citing Superior Tribunal de Justiça precedent and noting no signs of image tampering.
• The victim told the court she suffered repeated social-media attacks after the post and feared returning to work or being recognized in public.
• Poze was ordered to pay court costs, may appeal the decision in freedom, no civil damages were set because the victim did not request them, and the injúria case is being treated separately from unrelated probes into alleged organized-crime ties.