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A court has ordered Lúcio Flavio Pinto to pay more than $200,000 in damages. (AP/Silvia Izquierdo)

Brazilian journalist ordered to pay damages in libel case

New York, January 31, 2013–Appellate courts in Brazil should overturn a decision ordering journalist Lúcio Flavio Pinto to pay more than $200,000 in damages in connection with a libel suit, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. The journalist, who was initially found liable in late 2012, lost an appeal in a ruling publicized on…

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Fishermen on the Nile, where chemical dumping has been reported. (AP/Ben Curtis)

Global Media Forum cites risks of environmental reporting

He’s young, unemployed and carries himself with the innocence of a man who hasn’t spent much time outside his own village. But Egyptian blogger Tamer Mabrouk is the real deal. Appearing at an international media conference in Bonn, Mabrouk’s description of chemical dumping into a brackish lagoon on the northern Nile Delta near the Mediterranean Sea…

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