Brazil: Journalists Face Intimidation in Campaign

Expand The Brazilian presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro speaks to the press after recording his campaing, in Rio. © Fernando Frazão/Agência Brasil Presidential candidates should vigorously denounce threats and violence against journalists covering the election campaign in Brazil, several Brazilian and international nongovernmental organizations said today. Scores of reporters have been harassed, threatened, and in some cases physically attacked. The organizations are the Article 19, the Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism (Abraji), the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ),…

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