CPJ calls on Brazil to end its use of criminal defamation to persecute journalists
December 13, 2018 6:18 PM ET
New York, December 13, 2018--Brazilian authorities should cease prosecuting journalists for defamation and repeal the country's outdated criminal defamation laws, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Police took Paulo Cezar de Andrade Prado, a blogger known as "Paulinho,"...
CPJ calls on authorities to release imprisoned Brazilian blogger
September 15, 2015 4:53 PM ET
São Paulo, September 15, 2015--A Brazilian blogger who has spent more than two months in jail in connection with a 2011 criminal defamation conviction should be released immediately, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today....