Brazil - Brazil's military police regard journalists as “cancer of world”

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders condemns the military police's shocking use of violence against the journalist Karinny de Magalhães while she was covering a protest against the FIFA World Cup in Belo Horizonte, the capital of Minas Gerais state, for the Midia NINJA online news collective on 12 June. The military police insulted and beat Magalhães and then took her to a police station, where they hit her repeatedly again, causing her to lose consciousness. “Magalhães was subjected to inhuman (...)

© Reporters sans frontières - lundi 16 juin 2014