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Date:          Mon, 11 Aug 1997 13:34:36 -0400 (EDT)
From:          ifex@web.net (IFEX)
Subject:       Brazil alert (community radio station shut down)

IFEX- News from the international freedom of expression community
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ALERT - BRAZIL

11 August 1997

Community radio station shut down

SOURCE: World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters
(AMARC), Montreal

(AMARC/IFEX) - On 10 August 1997, a group of government officials
entered the Sao Joao Batista chapel in the Butanta barrio of Sao
Paolo, where the community radio Torre 105.5 FM operates, and shut the
station down. The officials, armed with a judicial order to enter the
premises, confiscated the station's broadcasting equipment as well as
other material relating to the community radio movement. Dalva
Pereira, coordinator of Radio Torre and secretary of the National
Catholic Association of Community Radio Stations, stated that the
station would seek legal recourse so that it could resume
broadcasting.

Community radio operators in Brazil are fighting for the
regulation of their activities through a bill currently being
debated in the National Congress. The administration of President
Fernando Henrique Cardoso considers community radios to be pirate
operations.

For further information, contact Bruce Girard, AMARC, Avenida
America 3584, Casilla 17-08-8489, Quito, Ecuador, tel: +593 2
525521, telefax: +593 2 542818 or 226648, e-mail:
bgirard@pulsar.org.ec. Or, contact AMARC at 3575 St-Laurent,
Suite 611, Montreal, Quebec H2X 2T7 Canada, tel: +1 514 982 0351, fax:
+1 514 849 7129, e-mail: amarc@web.net, Internet:
http://www.web.net/amarc/.

The information contained in this alert is the sole
responsibility of AMARC. In citing this material for broadcast or
publication, please credit AMARC.
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Bruce Girard             Agencia Informativa Pulsar
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