WHEREAS in Brazil there is strong pressure on the National Congress for inclusion in the Constitution of the country a provision that would require a university diploma for a journalist to carry out his profession; such a proposal violates the Inter American Convention on Human Rights, of which Brazil is a signatory; besides being rejected by the Inter American Court of Human Rights in Consultative Opinion OC-5/85 and it goes against the principle of the Declaration of Chapultepec, signed by former presidents Fernando Henrique and Luz Inácio Lula da Silva and by President Dilma Rousseff;
WHEREAS for more than 615 days court-imposed censorship has been in effect against the Estado de São Paulo newspaper which prohibits it from publishing information on the Boi Barrica/Factor case, in which the Federal Police are investigating the actions of businessman Fernando Sarney, son of José Sarney, former President of the Republic and now President of the Federal Senate;
THE MID-YEAR MEETING OF THE IAPA RESOLVES:
to call on the houses of the Brazilian Congress, where proposals to amend the Constitution are being considered that would require a diploma in journalism to practice the profession, to abstain from approving that law, which would violate the Inter American Convention on Human Rights and the principles of the Declaration of Chapultepec;
to ask the National Council of Justice to take immediate measures to reestablish full freedom of the press, violated by a decision of the Judicial Branch, more than 615 days ago, to forbid the newspaper Estado de São Paulo to publish information on the aforementioned Federal Police Operation Boi Barrica/Factor.
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