Tag: journalists

Brazil’s Press Freedom Is Threatened from All Sides: Gangs, Army and Courts

In Latin America’s largest country, journalists, legislators, courts, street gangs, and political factions are ...

Brazil Urged to Make Crimes Against Journalists Federal Offenses

The IAPA (Inter American Press Association) called on Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da ...

Arrests Made in Case of Journalists Tortured by Brazilian Police

A Brazilian man arrested on suspicion of being a member of a militia that ...

Brazilian Police Bar Press from Doing Its Work

London-based international freedom-of-expression organization Article 19 has issued a note condemning the abuses committed ...

Law and Reprisals Make Brazil’s Freedom of Press Ranking Low

Brazil ranks 63 in the Reporters Without Borders fourth annual World Press Freedom Index. ...