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File Photo: A Brazilian court has ordered President Jair Bolsonaro to pay compensation to a journalist after he made degrading comments about her. Mr Bolsonaro had suggested last year that Patrícia Campos Mello had offered sex to a source for negative information about him. The judge said Mr Bolsonaro's remarks had damaged the journalist's honour. The president was told to pay her 20,000 reais in damages. He can appeal the ruling. REUTERS

Ms Campos Mello brought legal action against him in response to comments made in February 2020. In its report about the remarks, the Folha newspaper accused Mr Bolsonaro of insulting Ms Campos Mello with sexual innuendo. In January, Ms Campos Mello won an almost identical case against the president's son, Eduardo, had suggested in a YouTube video that the reporter had "tried to seduce" a source for damaging information against his father. Youtube

In a tweet, Ms 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. /Twitter/