Emerson Joaquim

Gender: Male
TV Journalist

The journalists were covering a demonstration in front of the National Institute for Social Action (INAS), a government agency responsible for such relief, according to those sources.Officers also roughly detained Emerson Joaquim, a reporter for the privately owned online broadcaster Afro TV, and Osvaldo Sitora, a camera operator with the outlet, those journalists told CPJ. Sitora told CPJ that four police officers yelled at him and punched him in the back while detaining him, despite wearing an Afro TV vest and being clearly identifiable as a journalist. The officers said he could not report on the demonstration, and shoved him into the INAS yard. Joaquim told CPJ that another officer forced him into that yard as well.

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