Brazilian media org. condemns attack against journalist
The Brazilian Association for Investigative Journalism (Abraji) reported an alleged assault on Fábio Oliva, editor of Folha do Norte in Januária, Minas Gerais. The journalist says he was punched and kicked by Fabrício Viana, the city’s ex-Finance Secretary.
The attack happened after the paper published fraud allegations against Viana for which he was briefly jailed and is now awaiting trial.
This is not the first time Oliva has been attacked. In December 2004, the journalist said he was assaulted by someone he implicated in an earlier city government fraud case, the Inter American Press Association notes.
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