RIO DE JANEIRO – A Brazilian court ordered President Jair Bolsonaro to pay compensation to a journalist after making degrading comments about her.
Bolsonaro said last year that Patrícia Campos Mello offered sex to a source for negative information about him.
The judge said Bolsonaro’s remarks damaged the journalist’s honor.
The president was told to pay her 20,000 reais (£2,500; $3,500) in damages.
In a tweet, Campos Mello, an award-winning reporter for Brazilian daily newspaper Folha de S.Paulo, said the judge’s decision was a “victory for all of us women”.
The Journalists Against Harassment group said the ruling marked a “great day” for female reporters and professional journalism in Brazil.(BBC)
