Tag: press

Brazil Perils: Reporter Target of Bomb and Newspapers Seized by Thugs

In a case similar to the daily Extra newspaper in the city of Rio ...

Brazilian President Wants to Jail Journalists Who Use Wiretaps

The IAPA (Inter American Press Association) is voicing concern at a bill introduced to ...

Higher Court Overturns Fine for Political Interview in Brazil

Brazil's Superior Electoral Tribunal's ruled on July 2 that a São Paulo electoral court ...

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 ...

Four Policemen Arrested in Case of Murdered Brazilian Journalist

It was announced that four members of Brazil's military police were arrested on March ...

Courts Often Restrict Press Freedom in Brazil

During a recent public hearing of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights at the ...

Brazilian Press Steps Up Coverage of Global Warming

Newspapers from Brazil are covering climate change more frequently, according to a study published ...

Brazilian Congress Inquiry on Veja Magazine Believed to Be Reprisal

The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) announced that it plans to keep a close ...

Reporters Without Frontier Calls Brazil’s Ruling Party Resolution Undemocratic

Paris-based international censorship opposer and press freedom defender organization Reporters Without Frontier (RSF) has ...

In Brazil the Press Is a Sacred and Untouchable Cow to the Press

A recent edition of Rio’s daily O Globo reprinted a vehement indictment authored by ...