Brazil - Newspaper reporter targeted on former police chief's Facebook page

Reporters without borders

The journalist André Caramante has been receiving threats from former São Paulo military police commander Adriano Lopes Lucinda Telhada and his supporters ever since Caramante wrote a column for the daily newspaper A Folha de São Paulo on 14 July criticising the hate-mongering and obsession with security on Telhada's Facebook page. Reporters Without Borders, which was contacted by Caramante's family, calls for an investigation into the threats. Telhada is currently a candidate in next October's (...)

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