Brazil / Americas

New York, September 12, 2005 – The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns yesterday’s arson attack on the offices of daily Diário de Marília and sister radio stations Diário FM and Dirceu AM in the city of Marilia, in the state of São Paulo. José Ursílio, Diário de Marília’s editor in chief, declined to speculate who…

SEPTEMBER 11, 2005 October 17, 2005 Diário de MaríliaDiário FM Dirceu AM ATTACKED Arsonists attacked the offices of daily Diário de Marília and sister radio stations Diário FM and Dirceu AM in the city of Marilia, in the state of São Paulo.

AUGUST 10, 2005 Posted September 8, 2005 Wladimir de Souza, Diário de S.Paulo ATTACKED Souza, a photojournalist who works for the São Paulo-based daily Diário de S.Paulo, was attacked by a police officer.Souza was covering the detention of an alleged drug dealer by the police’s Narcotics Investigation Department (DENARC), when he was attacked by a…

JULY 28, 2005 Posted August 30, 2005 Ancelmo Gois, O Globo LEGAL ACTION Gois, a well-known columnist with the Rio de Janeiro daily O Globo, faced prosecution after his column revealed a dispute between two local judges.In a February 27, 2004 column titled “Clash of Titans,” Gois wrote that Judge Francisco José de Asevedo had…

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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,…