Brazil

This report by the Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism (Abraji) – supported by UNESCO’s Global Media Defense Fund – provides an overview of violence against women journalists and gender-based attacks on communicators in Brazil in 2021.

RSF has learned that Givanildo Oliveira had been subjected to harassment and intimidation in the past with the aim of getting him to take down certain articles posted on ‘Pirambu News’, the neighbourhood website he edited.

CPJ and Abraji are calling on local authorities to stop harassing and attempting to censor investigative journalist Giovani Grizotti.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is continuing to analyse the attacks on the Brazilian media by President Bolsonaro, his family and other members of his inner circle. Supported by key statistics, this latest analysis covers the first six months of 2021, in which the attacks have intensified.

Brazilian authorities should promptly and thoroughly investigate the shooting of journalist Jackson Silva, ensure his safety, and guarantee that reporters can work without fear.

Brazilian officials and their representatives should refrain from harassing members of the press who cover them and Brazilian authorities should ensure reporters can do their work without reprisal.

The Supreme Court examined the case of photographer Alex da Silveira, who lost sight in his left eye after being injured by a rubber bullet fired by the São Paulo Military Police during a protest in May 2000.

Journalist organisations call on the Supreme Court to protect press freedom, and the rights to information and protest in the emblematic case of photographer Alex da Silveira injured in 2000.

Journalists’ investigations of political issues, corruption, and organized crime in Brazil, Mexico, Colombia and Honduras accounted for 139 murders of media professionals during 2011-2020. Half of these journalists had received threats related to their work.

Brazilian authorities should promptly and thoroughly investigate the threat made to journalist Diego Santos and ensure his safety.

Brazilian authorities should not arrest sports blogger Paulo Cezar de Andrade Prado, and should reform the country’s defamation laws to ensure members of the press do not face imprisonment for their work.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) provides a quantified assessment of press freedom violations in 2020 and looks back at some of the most significant episodes in a year in which constant harassment by President Bolsonaro and his immediate circle poisoned the environment for journalists.

Brazilian authorities must swiftly and thoroughly investigate threats to “Repórter Brasil”, an investigative reporting and human rights organization, and hold the perpetrators to account.

The ruling stemmed from a civil lawsuit filed by Thiago Carriço de Oliveira, the lead prosecutor in that trial, who alleged that the reporting on a rape trial by journalist Schirlei Alves at both outlets had defamed him.

Brazilian authorities must promptly and thoroughly investigate threats to radio journalist Marco Antônio Ferreira and the burning of his car, and determine if they were related to his reporting.

Two men entered the home of journalist José Airton Alves Júnior in the town of Itarema, in Brazil’s northeast Ceará state, punched and kicked him several times and threatened him.