Posts Tagged ‘Brazil’
April 18th, 2012
A police officer investigating a journalist’s murder was
shot dead on Saturday by two men on a motorcycle in Ponta Porã on the Brazil-Paraguay border. Paulo César Santos Magalhães, who was part of a special unit fighting organised crime, was leading the investigation into the death of journalist
Paulo Rocaro, also shot dead by two gunmen on a motorcycle in February. Magalhães stopped at traffic lights before being shot 13 times.
Four other Brazilian journalists besides Rocaro have been murdered this year. Investigations into their deaths are ongoing.
April 3rd, 2012
Robert McCrum considers Index’s role in the history of the fight for free speech, from the oppression of the Cold War to censorship online
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March 29th, 2012
Two
Brazilian journalists
were murdered near the Paraguayan border over the weekend. Onei de Moura, owner of weekly newspaper Costa Oeste was shot and killed in Santa Helena by a man he had allegedly argued with earlier in the day. The suspected gunman turned himself him in, but was later released. Reporter Divino Aparecido Calvalho from Radio Cultura AM was ambushed as he left his car at the radio station. Calvalho was shot three times, but managed to escape in his car. Whilst attempting to drive to a hospital, he crashed into a parked ambulance, and died some time later.
February 14th, 2012
Brazilian newspaper editor Paulo Roberto Cardoso Rodrigues was
shot dead on Sunday night, making him the
second Brazilian journalist killed in less than a week and the
third in 2012. The journalist, who was known as Paulo Rocaro, was driving home at night in Ponta Porá, a city near the country’s border with Paraguay, when two men on a motorcycle shot him at least five times. Cardoso was the editor of the local daily Jornal Da Praça and news website Mercosul News, and frequently wrote about local politics.
February 13th, 2012
Brazilian political journalist Mário Randolfo Marques Lopes and his girlfriend were
kidnapped and shot dead in the early hours of 9 February in Barra do Piraí, Rio de Janeiro state. Known for being critical of local authorities on his website, Lopes had faced more than one attempt on his life. He was reportedly shot five times in the head when a gunman burst into the website’s newsroom around four months ago, and survived being
shot three times at his home last July.
February 7th, 2012
Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez has been
denied permission to leave the island to visit
Brazil. Last month, Sanchez f
ormally appealed to the Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff to enter the country so that she could attend the screening of a documentary about press freedom in Cuba and Honduras in which she features. The
blogger tweeted that this was the 19th time she has been denied the right to enter and leave the country. Migration rules that require Cubans to receive government permission to travel have prevented Sánchez from leaving the country since 2004.
January 6th, 2012
Dissident
Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez has
appealed to Brazil’s president to help her leave the Caribbean island. A strong critic of the country’s Communist regime, Sánchez has been accused by authorities of conducting a “cyberwar” against the government. Sánchez’s
video appeal to Dilma Rousseff follows her invitation to Brazil to attend the screening of a documentary about press freedom in Cuba and Honduras in which she features. The blogger said she did not expect to be able to leave Cuba without ”high-level intervention”. Migration rules that require Cubans to receive government permission to travel have prevented Sánchez from leaving the country since 2004.
January 4th, 2012
Brazilian radio reporter Laécio de Souza was
shot dead by two men yesterday in Salvador, in the north east of the country. Police said the journalist, a local news reporter for radio station Sucesso FM, had been
receiving threats on his mobile phone in the lead up to his murder. Police have not released a motive for the crime, although it has been
suggested local drug traffickers were upset with the journalist’s plans to construct a social project on his land.
