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Brazil: judge dismisses cybercrimes accusations against Glenn Greenwald
Source: The Guardian
Brazil: judge dismisses cybercrimes accusations against Glenn Greenwald
Prosecutors had accused the journalist of helping a group hack into the phones of local authorities
Tom Phillips, Latin America correspondent
Fri 7 Feb 2020 00.30 GMT
First published on Thu 6 Feb 2020 23.46 GMT
A Brazilian judge has rejected charges against the US journalist Glenn Greenwald stemming from his role in producing a series of damaging political exposés involving the celebrity justice minister of Brazil’s far-right president Jair Bolsonaro.
Federal prosecutors last month accused Greenwald – a staunch Bolsonaro critic – of being part of a “criminal” group of hackers which had allegedly pilfered messages from the mobile phones of Brazilian prosecutors and judges.
The extracted material served as the basis for a succession of politically explosive reports published by Greenwald’s media organisation the Intercept.
The reports appeared to suggest Sérgio Moro – a prominent judge who is now Bolsonaro’s justice minister and is himself thought to have presidential aspirations – had repeatedly collaborated with prosecutors during high-profile corruption investigations, including the controversial case that saw former leftist president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva jailed.
The decision to charge Greenwald sparked international outcry last month with many branding it a politically motivated move to criminalise journalism.
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Prosecutors had accused the journalist of helping a group hack into the phones of local authorities
Tom Phillips, Latin America correspondent
Fri 7 Feb 2020 00.30 GMT
First published on Thu 6 Feb 2020 23.46 GMT
A Brazilian judge has rejected charges against the US journalist Glenn Greenwald stemming from his role in producing a series of damaging political exposés involving the celebrity justice minister of Brazil’s far-right president Jair Bolsonaro.
Federal prosecutors last month accused Greenwald – a staunch Bolsonaro critic – of being part of a “criminal” group of hackers which had allegedly pilfered messages from the mobile phones of Brazilian prosecutors and judges.
The extracted material served as the basis for a succession of politically explosive reports published by Greenwald’s media organisation the Intercept.
The reports appeared to suggest Sérgio Moro – a prominent judge who is now Bolsonaro’s justice minister and is himself thought to have presidential aspirations – had repeatedly collaborated with prosecutors during high-profile corruption investigations, including the controversial case that saw former leftist president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva jailed.
The decision to charge Greenwald sparked international outcry last month with many branding it a politically motivated move to criminalise journalism.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/06/glenn-greenwald-brazil-judge-cybercrimes-dissmissed
