CHILEAN PROTESTS TO BRAZIL OVER JOURNALISTS' DETENTION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01314R000300450026-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 6, 2004
• Sequence Number: 26
• Publication Date: February 11, 1969
• Content Type: NSPR

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1. a. FEB 1969
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Over Journalists' Detention
Rio de Janeiro, Feb. 10-Th,
president of Chile's Nationa:
Prc's Aesic'at:cn protested to-
day to the B;-azilir n government
.over the ccntarr^d detention o.'
the p>~'a?eher and the chief edi
'or of Co;'rcio cia Man!:a, one of
Rio's l: r~est and' most influen-
tial drilies.
Previous ly, Agustin Echvards,
president of the Inter-American
Press Association and also a
Chilean, had announced the pos-
sible cancellation of the associa-
tion's- scheduled .1370 convention
here because of government
suppre.-.:on of the press.
Brotherhood Call
In a message to President Ar-
'hur da * :ta a Silva, Lisandro
Ca nepa Pede,. president of the
Chile-iii association, appealed to
rMr. Costa e Silva's "democratic
spirit" and invoked "traditional
Brayilir n brotherhood" in re-
questing release of M. Niomar
Moniz' Sodre Bittencourt, the
publisher, and Osvaldo Peralva,
the editor.
They were arrested January 7,
the day official censorship was
lifted following the govern-
ment's assumption of dictatorial
powers December 13.
Correio da Marna that day
printed a special edition carry-
no news about the government's
action that had been suppressed
for 24 days.
Now Under House Arrest
Ry ROBERT A. ERLANDSON
(Rio de Jauclro Burcau of DO S11711
Mrs. Bittencourt first was
confined in'a military barracks,'
then was transferred to a mili-
tary hospital and now is under
house arrest at- her home.
Mr. Peralva is being held In
a military barracks.
Corrcio da Manha has con-
tinued to publish, but like all
Brazilian papers it has been
completely subservient to gov-
ernment "guidance" on w'bat it;
,can present. ~
Although off lei al. 'censors no,
longer inhabit newsrooms- and
iwire service offices, Brazilian
papers are expected to operate
under self-censorship, with the
!threat of seizure and other re.
prisals ever present.
One Purged Senator
1 Another journalist, Senator
Mario Martins of Rio's Jornal
do Brasil, was among 30 federal
4con ressmen, stripped of their
ban was imposed, Brazil ap-
mointed its delegation to the
United Nations Commission on
Iuman. Rights 'and, today, the
Organiza`ion of American States
announced the annual conference
of the Inter-American Bar As-
sociation to be held in Rio in
June.
Included on the agenda is a
session on "the draft Inter-
~merican convention on human
rights and the impact of tech-
nological progress on the free.
dom of thought and expression
of ideas.'"
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the government issued its third
purge list.