Decision to charge Greenwald is a “unjustified reprisal,” RSF says

NewsReporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns yesterday’s decision by Brazilian federal prosecutors to charge Glenn Greenwald, a US investigative reporter resident in Brazil and co-founder of the The Intercept Brasil news website, with having “directly assisted, encouraged and guided” six alleged hackers. RSF says the accusations constitute an unjustified reprisal for The Intercept Brasil’s exposé – based on the details of online chats – of collusion between the judge and prosecutors in a huge anti-corruption investigation known as Operation Car Wash. The federal prosecutor’s office charged Greenwald…

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