TV Câmara is a Brazil

Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

ian public television network responsible for broadcasting activities from the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies. Created on 1998, it broadcasts 24 hours a day from the Chamber.

Censorship

On March 2009, Chamber President Michel Temer

Michel Temer

Michel Miguel Elias Temer Lulia , better known as Michel Temer, is a Brazilian lawyer and politician, and currently the Vice-President of Brazil after winning on the ticket of Workers' Party candidate Dilma Rousseff...

, at the request of Renato Parente, head of the Supreme Federal Court's press service, ordered the removal from TV Câmara's website of a debate in which CartaCapital

CartaCapital

CartaCapital is a weekly Brazilian newsmagazine published in Santana do Parnaíba, São Paulo and João Pessoa, Paraíba and distributed throughout the country by Editora Confiança. The main focuses of the magazine are politics, economy, social issues and culture.-History:CartaCapital was created in...

journalist Leandro Fortes criticized Gilmar Mendes

Gilmar Mendes

Gilmar Ferreira Mendes is a Brazilian Justice of the Supremo Tribunal Federal , since being appointed by then President Fernando Henrique Cardoso in 2002...

' tenure as Court President. Many viewed this episode as political censorship and the video was soon posted on YouTube

YouTube

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. After being denounced of censorship by the country's main bodies representative of journalists, TV Câmara put the debate back on its website.

External links

• Official website of the Chamber of Deputies of Brazil