"Among the almost 6,000 ongoing cases in Brazil that deal with freedom of expression, there are 654 actions against journalists that can be characterized as judicial harassment. The information is part of a survey carried out on Brazilian courts by the Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism (Abraji, for its acronym in Portuguese), obtained exclusively by […]
"The Jorge Duprat Figueiredo Foundation for Occupational Safety and Medicine (Fundacentro, for its acronym in Portuguese) and the National Federation of Journalists (Fenaj) launched this Tuesday (April 9) the national survey on the mental health of journalists. The project has support from the Public Ministry of Labor (MPT). The objective is to identify the impacts […]
"A letter sent by UN women rapporteurs to the Brazilian State calls for measures to protect women journalists who cover cases of sexual crimes and denounces the conviction of reporter Schirlei Alves. For them, the defamation proceedings against the journalist need to be annulled. Schirlei Alves was sentenced in the first instance to one year […]
"This Wednesday (April 3), the Amnesty Committee of the Chamber of Deputies in Brasília unanimously approved the recognition of Clarice Herzog as a political amnesty. The widow of journalist Vladimir Herzog, tortured and killed on Oct. 25, 1975 by agents of the former DOI-CODI (Department of Information Operations - Center for Internal Defense Operations) in […]
“Seven months ago, Agência Pública was forced by the court to withdraw a report published in June 2023 about the president of the [Brazilian] Chamber of Deputies Arthur Lira. [...] This Wednesday, April 3, the 6th Civil Chamber of the Court of Justice of the Federal District and the Territories judged on the merits of […]
"Last Tuesday (March 26), Abraji organized an online meeting that marked the launch of the new report 'Monitoring general attacks and gender-based violence.' The numbers are for the year 2023 and accompany analysis on the situation of press freedom in Brazil, addressing issues such as political, online and gender-based violence. Last year, 330 attacks on […]
"Abraji (Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism, for its acronym in Portuguese) filed on Friday (March 15) an appeal against the legal thesis of Brazil's Supreme Federal Court (STF) that establishes that media outlets are liable for statements made by interviewees who falsely accuse third parties of crimes. According to the decision, made in November by […]
"This week, public prosecutor Fabiano Augusto Petean, from the 1st Electoral Zone in São Paulo, filed a legal complaint against two journalists for alleged attempts to influence the election for the government of São Paulo. The focus of the complaint is based on reports about the shooting that occurred during the campaign for current governor […]
"[Brazil's] Superior Court of Justice (STJ, for its acronym in Portuguese) annulled the popular jury's decision that convicted four of the five defendants accused of planning and executing the death of radio presenter Valério Luiz in 2012. The appeal was a request from the defense of Maurício Sampaio, identified as the mastermind of the crime. […]
"A journalist has filed a sexual harassment police report at the police station of the Beira-Rio stadium [Porto Alegre-Brazil] against the employee who serves as the mascot of Internacional [Porto Alegre soccer team]. The incident allegedly took place shortly after Inter scored the third goal against Grêmio [soccer team]. According to Gisele Kumpel, who works […]