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Brazil: Blogger Threatened to Death

Categories: Latin America, Brazil, Breaking News, Digital Activism, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights

Celso Lungaretti denounces [1] [pt] death threats against Antuérpio Pettersen Filho, who leads the Brazilian Association of Individual and Citizenship Defense and edits the online newspaper Grito Cidadão [2] (Citizen Cry) [pt]. Filho's denouncements on alleged connections between the former chief of Civil Police [3], Julio César Oliveira Silva, with a Death Squad [4] have made him a target.