Andrei Netto

Andrei Netto is a Brazilian journalist and author. He worked at Gazeta Mercantil and Zero Hora. He is currently a correspondent to O [Estado de S. Paulo] in Paris, France. He graduated in Communication at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do [Rio Grande do Sul], where he also got his master's degree, and he obtained his doctorate at Université [René Descartes], in Paris.
He covered the Libyan [Civil War |2011 Libyan Civil War] and was arrested, gaining national attention due to the episode. He registered his accounts in a book called O silêncio contra Muamar Kadafi - A revolução da Líbia pelo repórter brasileiro que esteve nos calabouços do regime, which was later released in English as Bringing Down Gaddafi: On the Ground with the Libyan Rebels.