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Brazil Supreme Court orders São Paulo to compensate photojournalist blinded while covering 2013 protest

  • Source: UOL
  • April 28, 2026

"Unanimously, the First Panel of the Supreme Federal Court (STF, for its initials in Portuguese) ordered the government of the State of São Paulo to pay R$ 100,000 (US $20,000) in moral damages and a lifetime pension to photographer Sérgio Silva, who lost sight in his left eye while covering a protest against public transport fare hikes in the state capital in 2013."

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