In an article published on its website, the Brazilian magazine Caras said its was being censored for covering the death of the Brazilian actress and writer Cibele Dorsa. A court order forced the magazine to unpublish excerpts of the suicide note that the actress had sent to the magazine before her death.
The magazine said it will appeal the court's decision, adding that the printed version of the magazine will be circulated with words blackened out, "like during the time of military censorship."
According to the magazine's editor, Luis Maluf, the ex-husband of the actress is responsible for the censorship, reported Folha de São Paulo. “With the edition already in press, we received a judicial order preventing us from mentioning the name," directly or indirectly, of Dorsa's ex-husband, Maluf said. “We also received a 12-hour deadline to remove anything we had published on our site" related to the issue, he added.
The actress died early Saturday, March 26, after falling from the seventh floor of a building in São Paulo. In January, Dorsa's boyfriend, television presenter Gilberto Scarpa, killed himself in the same spot.
Note from the editor: This story was originally published by the Knight Center’s blog Journalism in the Americas, the predecessor of LatAm Journalism Review.
