<div>The 5th Specialized Panel of the Federal Regional Court of the 2nd Zone (TRF2) has sentenced the Federal Government to pay 50 thousand reais R$50,000 (R$1 – US$1,8) to a freelance reporter from Editora Abril, for moral damages.</div>
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<div>According to the lawsuit, she suffered verbal and physical abuse was verbally and physically abused by soldiers from the Military Police during the New Year´s Eve party at the Copacabana Fort in 1999. This attack would had been a retaliation for the fact that the journalist had photographed acts of violence against a fellow of the newspaper Jornal do Brazil, who tried to capture images of the fall of an awning falling over the place in which the ex-President Fernando Henrique Cardoso and several authorities would be during the event.</div>
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<div>The Union defended it self alleging that there was no technical evidence of this violence, once the Legal Medical Institute´s (IML) report did not show any physical damage on the journalist.</div>
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