FREEDOM OF PRESS IN BRAZIL AND THE WORLD ----- ----- WEEKLY BULLETIN BOARD OF SOCIAL RIGHTS AND FREE PRESS ASSOCIATION RIOGRANDENSE ----- PRESS (ARI) ---- SEARCH AND EDITING - VILSON ANTONIO ROMERO
Notes Brazil Curitiba (PR) - Governor Roberto Requiao (PMDB), was convicted by a decision pays doc of Judge Julia de Araujo, the 6 th Civel to pay R $ 25 thousand to journalist Joice Hasselmann, Radio Band News. On March 13, 2007, Requiao and his brother Maurice, then State Secretary of Education, offended the journalist - who had done a report on the purchase of 22,000 color televisions orange government - during a meeting broadcast on Radio and TV Educativa . When transmitting, the governor said that the meeting would be "hard and tough response to the group of the yellow press about the program on the purchase of televisions." He still would have said Joice distorted pays doc the facts, pays doc and that demonstrate "what that bastard wanted." Joice's defense claimed that she suffered damages because his name was exposed for more than two and a half hours in the media. For the magistrate, several passages have proven abuse of the right of manifestation by the governor. pays doc Brasília (DF) - Ministers Gilmar Mendes, the Brazilian Supreme Court (STF), and Carlos Ayres Britto, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE), proposed during the Fourth Legislative Conference on Press Freedom, held on June 9, in House of Representatives, pays doc that the media is autorregulem, with the extinction of the Press Law. For Mendes, the Civil and Criminal Codes should decide pays doc cases on abuses by journalists and vehicles. Already in evaluating Ayres Brito, the 1988 Brazilian Constitution prevents the creation of laws that may limit the freedom of the press in the country. The minister also stressed that a specific law can be created to handle pays doc the right answer, but not a set of rules governing the sector. pays doc Garanhuns (PE) - Several city councilors pays doc have taken their freedom of expression, to defend the punishment broadcaster Eduardo Peixoto, which released data on funds for representatives of the House for the exercise of their mandate. The newspaper report RadioAção May and June, the Union of Broadcasters Pernambuco, entitled "Councillors Garanhuns mordarça defend the law," informs that Peixoto only reflected in Radio Newspaper Garanhuns information published pays doc by councilor Raimundo de Morais seeking transparency in use of resources by the members of the City Council. A councilor has demanded the resignation of radio and another called it "crazy" in a speech in the plenary. São Paulo (MG) - The Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism (Abraji) ordered the creation of the blog Petrobras facts and figures. To the entity only after the publication of the matter, the state "has the right to confront their responses to what was published." According to the statement, to disclose the questions and answers to journalists, Petrobras "undermines the journalistic work of the professional pays doc who, in good faith, the company seeks to check some data or hear any challenge to compose the work of reportage." "In doing so, Petrobras inhibits the media and journalists who need to check with the company reporting any information to be conveyed. The state should review this practice to maintain a professional pays doc relationship with the media and journalists, who have the right to keep confidential pays doc their calculations prior to placement of the final product, "says the note. Steps (MG) - The newspaper Folha da Manha, the newspaper company Santa Marta, was convicted by the 13th Civil Chamber of the Court miner to indemnify a painter of walls 8000 in damages. The vehicle mistakenly published his name in a news story about drug dealers in the city. The Military pays doc Police made a mega-operation in the city on the eve of Carnival 2008 with the objective of combating drug trafficking. The next day, the newspaper splashed the news highlighted with the names of traffickers arrested in the operation. Among them, the plaintiff, who was not arrested at the time. The judge of the 3rd Circuit Court ruled that the newspaper offended the honor of the painter and did nothing to minimize the constraints, since the date of the judgment was still in the news page of the newspaper on the Internet. Worldwide Guatemala pays doc - The journalist Marco Antonio Estrada was shot dead on June 6 by a stranger in the east when parked his motorcycle. Newspaper reporter "Telediario", a local TV station, Estrada had 25 years of experience in this profession. The motive remains unclear. The Inter American Press Association issued a statement of condemnation of the crime, noting that in 2009 there were already ten murders. Somalia pays doc - The director of Radio Shabe
