Marlon Weichert has been a Federal Prosecutor in Brazil since 1995. Weichert has worked on various issues, from anti-corruption to human rights cases in criminal and civil fields. With a strong trajectory on transitional justice initiatives, he was responsible for investigations and prosecutions regarding crimes against humanity committed during the Brazilian dictatorship. From 2013 until 2017, Weichert was a member of the Federal Reparation Commission (the Amnesty Commission).
Weichert served for four years (2016-2020) as Deputy Federal Ombudsman at the Federal Prosecutor’s Office for the Rights of the Citizen (PFDC, in its Brazilian initials). He coordinated the Office activities on mass atrocity prevention, transitional justice, public security, and business and human rights.
In 2020/2021, Mr Weichert was a member of the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI) for Bolivia, created to investigate the country’s violent events and human rights violations from September to December 2019, under an agreement signed by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the State.
Mr Weichert holds an MA degree in Public Law and was a researcher at the New York University School of Law – Hauser Global Fellows Program. He has authored more than 40 publications on human rights and transitional justice.