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UPDATE - BRAZIL
13 June 2007
Newspaper article alleges local military police involved in journalist's
murder
SOURCE: Reporters sans frontières (RSF), Paris
**Updates IFEX alert of 8 May 2007**
(RSF/IFEX) - According to an article in the "Folha de São Paulo" daily
newspaper of 8 June 2007, members of the local military police were
involved in the 5 May murder of Luiz Carlos Barbon Filho in Porto Ferreira,
in São Paulo state.
A contributor to the "Jornal do Porto" and "JC Regional" local newspapers,
Barbon accused five local officials and four businessmen of sexual abuse of
teenage girls in an article in 2003.
The Department for General Inquiries (DIG) has been put in charge of the
investigation so that the Porto Ferreira police are not subjected to local
political pressure. A regional military police commander, Marli Rossi Silva
dos Reis, denied knowledge of any "involvement of the military police in
this murder".
For further information, contact Benoît Hervieu at RSF, 5, rue Geoffroy
Marie, Paris 75009, France, tel: +33 1 44 83 84 68, fax: +33 1 45 23 11 51,
e-mail: ameriques@rsf.org, Internet: http://www.rsf.org
The information contained in this update is the sole responsibility of RSF.
In citing this material for broadcast or publication, please credit RSF.
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