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Rio de Janeiro Prosecutor’s office charges two police officers involved in Jacarezinho favela massacre
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - According to the complaint published by the Prosecutor's Office, the two agents will answer for the murder of Omar...
Rio de Janeiro court releases 3 Jacarezinho operation detainees
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Three of the six prisoners arrested on May 6 in the Civil Police's Operation in the Jacarezinho favela, in...
Rio police impose controversial 5-year secrecy on Jacarezinho operation documents
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The details about the Jacarezinho massacre will remain in the dark. The Rio de Janeiro Civil Police decreed a...
Rio Prosecutor’s Office, pressured by public opinion, creates task force on Jacarezinho massacre
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The Jacarezinho massacre, which claimed the lives of 28 people last Thursday in Rio de Janeiro's North Zone, continues...
Jacarezinho, Manguinhos Occupied: Daily
By Chesney Hearst, Contributing Reporter
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – BOPE (Special Police Operations Battalions) assisted by Navy tanks, military police (PMs) and civil...
Brazil: former congresswoman sentenced to 50 years in prison for her husband’s murder
The former Brazilian federal deputy of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), Flordelis dos Santos, was sentenced on November 13 to 50 years in prison...
Two policemen die in operation in a Rio de Janeiro favela
The agents entered through one of the entrances of Complexo Mangueirinha, in Duque de Caxias, when alleged "criminals fired at the vehicles" of a...
Brazil: At least eleven killed in a police operation in Rio de Janeiro
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - At least 11 people were killed in an exchange of fire during a police operation in a favela in...
Brazil: Government increases body camera usage to prevent police violence
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Rio de Janeiro, a city with chronic problems of police violence, will begin to implement cameras in the uniforms...
Eight dead after police raid in Rio de Janeiro
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The raid in the Vila Cruzeiro favela was coordinated between Brazil’s Highway Police and the State Police. Officers seized...
Rio de Janeiro state police operation to regain control of favelas
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The operation, which began at dawn, is part of a permanent effort to increase police presence and improve services...
Brazil’s mega operation to take back favelas
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Early on Wednesday morning, 1,200 heavily armed police officers stormed the slum in the north of Rio de Janeiro,...
Rio de Janeiro: Deaths in massacres up 50% in a year in metropolitan area
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The number of people killed in massacres in the metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro between 2020 and 2021...
Opinion: ‘Operation Varginha’ – From Halloween to All Souls’ Day
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – (Opinion). Today, November 2, is All Souls’ Day (“Finados”), a legal holiday in Brazil, when most Brazilians are mourning...