RIO DE JANEIRO: Justice Minister Sergio Moro will have to answer questions about whether Brazilian authorities are investigating US journalist Glenn Greenwald, whose online news site has published material critical of the minister and President Jair Bolsonaro’s administration.
Supreme Court President Dias Toffoli on Monday ordered that Moro, federal police, the attorney general’s office and the Economy Ministry provide information on any investigations into Greenwald, following media reports that investigators are looking into his finances.
Greenwald’s The Intercept Brasil has been publishing leaked messages it says show improper collusion between Moro and prosecutors when Moro was a judge overseeing the prosecution of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
The conviction helped block da Silva from seeking the presidency again in October’s election and Moro went on to become justice minister for the winning candidate, Bolsonaro.
The reports have tarnished the image of “Super-Moro,” who was heralded as a leading figure in the global fight against corruption, as well as the anti-graft probe he oversaw as a judge. Operation Car Wash, launched in 2014, has looked into billions of dollars in contracts with oil-giant Petrobras and ended the careers of some of the most prominent business and political figures in the South American nation and abroad.
Greenwald, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, says he has been receiving death threats and homophobic comments. So far, questions on possible investigations into his finances have been left unanswered by authorities.
But a political party known as the Sustainability Network filed a petition with the high court on July 10, arguing that such investigation would be unconstitutional and asking for the immediate suspension of all inquiries.
The Sustainability Network cites news articles reporting that the federal police had asked the Council for Financial Activities Control, a body attached to the Economy Ministry, to investigate possible criminal activities related to the leaks published in The Intercept.
The Associated Press reached out to the federal police’s press department, which was not immediately able to confirm or deny the allegations.
Moro said on Twitter that “this campaign” against him and anti-graft prosecutors was “bordering on the ridiculous.”
Brazil gov’t must reveal any inquiry into Glenn Greenwald
Brazil gov’t must reveal any inquiry into Glenn Greenwald
- Moro said on Twitter that “this campaign” against him and anti-graft prosecutors was “bordering on the ridiculous”
Israel arrests 2 Turkish CNN journalists over live broadcast outside IDF HQ
- Police said reporter Emrah Cakmak and cameraman Halil Kahraman were detained on suspicion of filming a sensitive security facility
- Since the Gaza war began, restrictions have expanded significantly, including tighter limits on filming soldiers on duty and sensitive or strategic sites
LONDON: Israeli police have arrested two Turkish CNN journalists who were broadcasting live outside the Israel Defense Forces’ headquarters in Tel Aviv.
Police said the pair were detained on suspicion of filming a sensitive security facility, according to the Israel Police Spokesperson’s Unit.
Reporter Emrah Cakmak and cameraman Halil Kahraman, from the network’s Turkish-language channel, had been reporting near the IDF’s Kirya military headquarters on Tuesday after Iran launched another missile barrage at Tel Aviv and other parts of central Israel.
During the live broadcast, two men believed to be soldiers approached the crew and seized the reporter’s phone, according to initial reports and a video circulating online that could not be independently verified.
Police said officers were dispatched after receiving reports of two people carrying cameras and allegedly broadcasting in real time for a foreign outlet.
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Israel’s long-standing military censorship system, overseen by the IDF Military Censor, has long barred journalists and civilians from publishing material deemed harmful to national security.
Since the Gaza war began, restrictions have expanded significantly, including tighter limits on filming soldiers on duty and sensitive or strategic sites.
After a series of similar incidents involving foreign media — most of them Palestinian citizens of Israel working for Arab-language and international media, along with foreign journalists — during the 12-Day War, Israeli police halted live international broadcasts from missile impact sites, citing concerns that exact locations were being revealed.
The Government Press Office later imposed a blanket ban on live coverage from crash and impact areas.
Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir subsequently ordered that all foreign journalists obtain prior written approval from the military censor before broadcasting — live or recorded — from combat zones or missile strike locations.
Police said that when officers asked the CNN Turk crew to identify themselves, they presented expired press cards and were taken in for questioning.
Burhanettin Duran, head of Turkiye’s Directorate of Communications, condemned the arrests as an attack on the press and said Ankara is working to secure the journalists’ release.
