<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">O assassinato do jornalista Luiz Carlos Barbon Filho, em 5 de maio, <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:PersonName w:st="on" ProductID="em Porto Ferreira">em Porto Ferreira</st1:PersonName> (SP), "mirou não só a pessoa, mas a liberdade de expressão", disse o diretor-geral da <SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Organização das Nações Unidas para a educação, a ciência e a cultura </SPAN>(Unesco), Koïchiro Matsuura. Ele </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">cobrou das autoridades brasileiras todos os esforços para que os executores e mandantes do crime sejam levados à Justiça.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><STRONG><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">Murder of Brazilian journalist deplored by UNESCO chief</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></STRONG></P>
<P><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">25 May 2007 – </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">The head of the United Nations agency tasked with defending freedom of the press today condemned the murder of a Brazilian journalist who was gunned down earlier this month by unidentified men. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">Luiz Carlos Barbon Filho, 37, who contributed to the media outlets Radio Porto FM, Jornal do Porto and JC Regional, was shot dead on 5 May while sitting at a bar in Porto Ferreira, about <st1:metricconverter w:st="on" ProductID="200 kilometres">200 kilometres</st1:metricconverter> from <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">São Paulo</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Brazil</st1:country-region></st1:place>’s biggest city. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">In 2003, Mr. Barbon Filho uncovered a child prostitution ring in which four local businessmen and five city officials were implicated, and a national journalism award that year ranked him a finalist in honour of his investigative reports. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">In a statement released at the <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Paris</st1:place></st1:City> headquarters of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><A href="http://abraji.org.br/admin/%20http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=29008&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">UNESCO</SPAN></A></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">), Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura deplored the murder and called on Brazilian authorities to do their utmost to bring the perpetrators – and those people who hired them – to justice. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">“This vicious act targets not only the man, but also freedom of expression, a basic human right,” Mr. Matsuura said.</SPAN></P>