Edinaldo Filgueira

Edinaldo Filgueira
Bornc. 1975
Died15 June 2011
Serra do Mel, Brazil
NationalityBrazilian
EducationUERN
Occupation(s)Blogger and journalist, editor and owner

Edinaldo Filgueira, also spelled Ednaldo (c. 1975 – 15 June 2011), was a Brazilian blogger and journalist and editor. He was owner of the newspaper and online Jornal o Serrano in Serra do Mel, Brazil. He was assassinated by gunmen as he left work. Filgueira was also active in party politics.[1] He was believed to have been killed for a blog post critical of local government.[2]

Filgueira was the third blogger worldwide to have been known to be killed for their blog publications. The others were Iranian blogger Omid Reza Mir Sayafi, who died while in an Iranian prison in March 2009, and Bahraini Zakariya Rashid Hassan al-Ashiri, who was killed while in Bahraini custody in April 2011 during the Arab Spring uprising. Filgueira was the first blogger known to have been assassinated.[3]

Filgueira is listed by the Freedom Forum Journalists Memorial at Newseum as a journalist who died during 2011.[4]

  1. ^ Committee to Protect Journalists. 2011. "Edinaldo Filgueira." Retrieved September 21, 2011 CPJ
  2. ^ Roy Greenslade. 2011. "Greenslade Blog: Brazilian blogger murdered." The Guardian (UK), 24 June. Retrieved 14 November 2011 The Guardian (UK)
  3. ^ Curt Hopkins. 2011. "Brazilian blogger assasinated [sic]." ReadWriteWeb, June 23. Retrieved 4 November 2011 from the Lexis-Nexis Database.
  4. ^ Newseum. "Freedom Forum Journalists Memorial: Journalists in Peril, Preliminary list of journalists who died in 2011 ." 2011. Retrieved 13 November 2011. Newseum Archived 2011-11-20 at the Wayback Machine