Freedom of information has made important progress in Brazil during the past 12 years under President Lula da Silva and (since 2011) his successor Dilma Rousseff, who was reelected on 26 October, winning a fourth consecutive term for the Workers’ Party (PT), but much remains to be done. Reporters Without Borders takes this opportunity to highlight the two major challenges facing the government...
The Court of Justice of the State of São Paulo has reversed the earlier decision to award compensation to Brazilian photographer Alexandro Wagner Oliveira da Silveira, known as Alex Silva. The compensation was awarded for medical bills and damages after the photographer lost the sight of his left eye due to being shot with a rubber bullet by troops from the Military Police while covering a...
The International Press Institute (IPI) on Monday urged Brazil to implement safety measures for journalists amid reports that at least 36 were attacked between June 12 and July 13 while covering protests against the World Cup. The Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalists (ABRAJI) told IPI that almost 90 percent of the attacks – which included 17 more cases of aggression against or...
The International Press Institute (IPI) Monday called on the Brazilian government to implement measures approved by the country’s Human Rights Secretariat to promote the safety of journalists covering protests currently taking place in various cities across Brazil. Nineteen Brazilian and international journalists were attacked in Brazil between June 12, the day the ongoing World Cup began, and...
Protests are spreading across Brazil’s major cities as the country readies itself for the beginning of the World Cup on the 12 June. In the wake of last year’s violent clashes, there are growing concerns for the safety of journalists as tensions continue to escalate. Since Brazil won the right to host the competition, the country’s security forces have been locked in a drawn-out battle to...
The Chief of the Human Rights Secretariat of the Presidency (Secretaria de Direitos Humanos da Presidência da República, or SDH), Maria do Rosário, has made proposals to increase the safety of journalists. The recommendations thatwere made on March 11 are part of a working group's final report on violence against media professionals, a group that was created in 2013 by the Human Rights...
The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the murder Thursday night of Brazilian journalist Pedro Palma and calls on authorities to fully investigate the crime and bring those responsible to justice. Palma was gunned down by two unidentified men on a motorcycle outside his home in Miguel Pereira, a suburb to the south of Rio de Janeiro, and died at the scene, according to news reports. Palma...
Brazilian authorities must immediately investigate an attack on a journalist who was injured covering a protest in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Santiago IlÃdio Andrade is in a coma after being hit in the head with an explosive device, according to news reports. Andrade, cameraman for the television network Bandeirantes, was filming a confrontation...
Auro Ida, a renowned political journalist in the west-central state of Mato Grosso and editor of the Midianews website, was gunned down in Cuiabá, the state capital, on July 22, becoming the fourth journalist to be murdered in Brazil since the start of the year. Paris-based press freedom group Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) offered its condolences to his family and colleagues, and called on the...
