Brazil's Bolsonaro rebuked for false accusation against reporter


  • World
  • Monday, 11 Mar 2019

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro attends a credentials presentation ceremony for several new top diplomats at Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil March 8, 2019. REUTERS/Adriano Machado

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's bar association and top investigative journalism group Abraji blasted far-right President Jair Bolsonaro on Monday for his latest Twitter attack on the press.

Bolsonaro on Sunday tweeted that a reporter with the Estado de S.Paulo newspaper had been caught on an audiotape saying that she wanted to aid in his impeachment and "ruin the life" of his son Flavio, a senator under investigation for money laundering.

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