The sentence was converted into the payment of 30 minimum wages to a charity
A São Paulo judge sentenced the journalist Augusto Nunes, former presenter of Jovem Pan, TV Cultura and Record, to six months in prison for having called the governor of Rondônia, Marcos Rocha (União), a “cafajeste”, and for stating that diverted coronavirus vaccines.
In the sentence, Judge José Fernando Steinberg, of the Special Criminal Court of Barra Funda, converted the sentence to the payment of 30 minimum wages to a charity.
The journalist was convicted in absentia. According to the magistrate, although notified, the journalist did not appear at the instruction hearing nor did he present a defense in the trial.
To justice, the governor said he was hospitalized in intensive care with the coronavirus when the text was published on the journalist’s blog in Record, on January 27, 2021. The article is no longer available on the Internet.
Although federal investigations into vaccine diversion in Rondônia’s government were reported at the time, the governor said he had the accounts approved by the State Audit Office and that the reporter’s text deals with “facts that never existed.” , according to the governor’s defense. He further stated that the article was intended to “disparage his conduct”.
To justify the journalist’s conviction, the magistrate said that there was “clear documentary evidence” of crimes against the governor’s honor and that the journalist “extracted the barriers of freedom of expression and of the press”.
Contacted by the editorial staff, the journalist announced that he will present an appeal against the sentence.
“I can say that I was tried in absentia and that it was a misinterpretation of justice. Now, having set myself up as a lawyer, the sentence will certainly be overturned in the second degree,” said the journalist.
Source: Terra
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