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Brazil: Police summon two TV Globo journalists for alleged breach of a gag order

  • Source: UOL
  • December 4, 2020

"The Civil Police of Rio de Janeiro summoned the anchors William Bonner and Renata Vasconcellos, from TV Globo’s (newscast) “Jornal Nacional,” to testify for the alleged crime of disobedience of the judicial decision in relation to publications involving the investigation of 'rachadinhas' (an illegal scheme in which employees of representatives’ offices shared their salaries with their bosses) in Flávio Bolsonaro’s office in the Legislative Assembly of Rio de Janeiro.  

The network was legally prohibited, by a gag order, from publishing classified information about the case, which involves Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, the first-born of the President of the Republic, Jair Bolsonaro. "

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