By Maira Magro
Two local police officers and a third accomplice were indicted for last month's kidnapping and torture of journalist Gilvan Luiz Pereira, editor and owner of Jornal Sem Nome (Newspaper Without a Name), in Juazeiro do Norte, Ceará, the Diário do Nordeste newspaper reports.
The two officers worked as security guards for the mayor, and the third man is the owner of the car used in the kidnapping, the Ceará Agora site says.
Pereira had been critical of the mayor's administration. He had reported receiving death threats and had written that the mayor and a local councilman would be guilty for any attack against him, Jangadeiro Online adds.
The police official in charge of the investigations said the two guards had acted in order to help the mayor, but that the mayor had not known of their actions and was innocent. Demonstrators took to the streets to demand the police name the person responsible for the crime, Ceará Agora says.
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.
