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CPJ Update July 15, 2005 News from the Committee to Protect Journalists Return to front page | See previous Updates

JUNE 21, 2005 Posted: July 22, 2005 Gilmário Batista, TV Globo Lúcio Sturm, TV Globo Marçal Araújo, TV Globo ATTACKED Three men attacked a news crew from television station TV Globo. The news crew was working on a news report in front of the headquarters of the ruling Workers Party (PT) in the city of…

JUNE 16, 2005 Posted: July 12, 2005 Efrém Ribeiro, Jornal Meio Norte ATTACKED, THREATENED Ribeiro, a reporter with the daily Jornal Meio Norte, based in the city of Teresina, in the northern state of Piauí, said he was attacked and threatened by a local politician.

JUNE 3, 2005 Posted: June 24, 2005 José Carlos Forner, CaTV Robson Xavier, CaTV ATTACKED Forner and Xavier, who work for television station CaTV, were attacked by police officers at the end of an indoor soccer game in the city of São Miguel do Iguaçu, in southern Paraná state.

New York, May 17, 2005—The Committee to Protect Journalists deplores the criminal defamation conviction of Brazilian sports commentator Jorge Kajuru, who will soon begin serving 18 months of overnight detention. Kajuru, whose real name is Jorge Reis da Costa, has been ordered to stay at a prison dormitory in Goiânia, capital of central Goiás state,…

MAY 15, 2005 Posted: June 9, 2004 Rede Amazônica de Televisão CENSORED A judge banned TV station Rede Amazônica de Televisão, the affiliate of television network Rede Globo in central-west Rondônia state, from broadcasting a report on corruption involving state legislators and the governor.

New York, May 12, 2005 – The Committee to Protect Journalists protests the recent decision of a Brazilian district judge to seize all copies of a nonfiction book by journalist and author Fernando Morais. On May 4, Judge Jeová Sardinha de Morais, of the 7th Civil District of Goiânia, the capital of the central state…

MAY 4, 2005 Posted: June 9, 2005 André Lima, Diário do Nordeste ATTACKED Military police officers attacked Lima, a photographer for the daily newspaper, while he was covering a demonstration in Fortaleza, the capital of northeastern Ceará state. The protesters opposed efforts by a public utility to install a high-voltage power line inside a poor…

APRIL 28, 2005 Posted: June 15, 2005 Jorge Kajuru, SBT LEGAL ACTION Brazilian sports commentator Jorge Kajuru was sentenced to 18 months of overnight detention after being convicted on a criminal defamation charge. He remains free while his case is under appeal before the Superior Court of Justice, Brazil’s second highest court.