On Oct. 9, Brazilian journalist Antonio Carlos Ferrari was attacked and threatened at an event at the Itaporã city hall in the southern state of Mato Grosso do Sul after reporting on a local family accused of maintaining slave labor, according to the website Dourado News.
The aggressor, Amâncio Pereira Cortez, punched the reporter, who was also threatened by Cortez's son. According to Rádio Caçula, the Cortez family owns a rural property where two elderly people allegedly were held in slavery.
According to the journalist, the attack was a reprisal for a report he was working on after accompanying police on a raid on the property, reported the website Itaporã Hoje. Since then, the father and son have threatened the reporter.
Ferrari filed a police report for aggravated assault, and he was taken to the Municipal Hospital for further examination.
