While the reporting of accusations to the police is not made compulsory, bishops are told to follow "the prescriptions of civil law regarding the reporting of such crimes to the designated authority".
Also in August, Sarney's son, Fernando, who faced allegations of money laundering, won an injunction from Federal District Court Judge Dácio Vieira that prohibited any reporting of accusations against him by one of Brazil's leading daily newspapers, O Estado de São Paulo.
On April 25, just three days after formally announcing his candidacy, he withdrew, citing what he called devastating news reports of accusations that he had repeatedly broken legal-ethics rules in his private business dealings.
Following some of the most recent accusations, it has not escaped skeptics that the press has made mistakes in reporting on accusations of sexual assault before.
He went into hiding this week after county police in Zhejiang Province announced they were seeking his arrest for reporting on accusations of insider trading at a paper company in a four-part series in The Economic Observer, a well-regarded weekly.
Ray Lewis, a deputy mayor of London, resigned, citing pressure from news media reports on accusations of past sexual and financial misconduct.
The government's anticorruption czar, Public Protector Thuli Madonsela, is also preparing a report on accusations of criminality in Mr. Malema's business dealings.
This attitude underwent a dramatic turnabout in late 1974, when The New York Times reported on accusations of C.I.A. spying at home and questionable covert actions in Chile.
"People all around started chanting 'here they are' and 'dirty leftist.'" Mediapart has drawn particular fire from Mr. Sarkozy and his supporters for its reports on accusations of campaign finance abuse during the last French presidential election in 2007.
He reported on accusations of war crimes against the country's military, and the men behind the Muslim Brotherhood, which was central to the Arab Spring, but later became the target of violent protests.
A private consultant's report on accusations of misconduct against Councilman Allan W. Jennings Jr. concludes that the Queens councilman created a hostile work environment for female employees and wrongfully fired one of them, according to a City Council official.
