Felipe de Oliveira Araújo Rodrigues Archives - Committee to Protect Journalists

A beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on March 04, 2018. Brazilian authorities indicted reporter Felipe de Oliveira Araújo Rodrigues on anti-state charges after he reported on Islamic State militant groups, according to reports. (AFP/ Mauro Pimentel)

Brazilian reporter charged with ‘promoting terrorism’ after reporting on the militant group Islamic State

April 27, 2018 12:43 PM EDT

São Paulo, April 27, 2018–The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on Brazilian authorities to drop anti-state charges against Felipe de Oliveira Araújo Rodrigues, a Rio de Janeiro-based journalist who infiltrated a Brazilian group of supporters of the Islamic State militant group in 2016 to report on their activities.