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Rio’s Mayor Eduardo Paes calls on police to investigate more and kill less
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The mayor of Rio de Janeiro, Eduardo Paes, called on Wednesday, June 9, for the police to "investigate more...
Police abuses in Rio de Janeiro’s biggest massacre denounced to the UN
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - A Brazilian human rights organization presented this Tuesday, June 1, an "urgent appeal" for at least four UN Human...
Gringo View: Truth or Consequences
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - (Opinion) Starting in the 1940s, "Truth or Consequences" was a popular American radio program that asked contestants questions and...
Thousands protest in Brazil against racism and police violence
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Thousands of people in several Brazilian cities protested against racism and police violence on Thursday, May 13, a week...
Opinion: “Law enforcement” in Rio’s favelas is largely non-existent
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - (Opinion) Many people (including this writer) are shocked (but not surprised) by the Rio de Janeiro police killing 27...
Jair Bolsonaro congratulates police on controversial operation leaving 28 dead in Rio favela
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The president of Brazil, ultra-conservative Jair Bolsonaro, on Sunday, May 9, congratulated the police for their questionable operation last...
A third of Rio Police operation’s victims have no criminal proceedings in Court
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - A third of the people killed by the Rio de Janeiro Civil Police during Operation Exceptis, last Thursday, May...
Rio police operation: “One of the biggest rights violations I have ever seen,” says public defender
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Men arrested in the Civil Police operation that left 29 dead in the Jacarezinho community, a Rio de Janeiro...
Death toll rises to 29 in controversial police operation in Rio de Janeiro favela
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The death toll in the police operation that took place on Thursday in a favela in Rio de Janeiro...
STF Justice Fachin sees signs of “arbitrary executions” in Rio police operation
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - On Friday, May 7, Justice Edson Fachin of the Federal Supreme Court (STF) described as "serious" the allegations of...
Appalled protesters demand justice for 25 lives lost in police operation in Rio de Janeiro
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Demonstrators from the favela of Jacarezinho gathered this Friday in front of the Civil Police facilities in Rio de...
UN calls for impartial investigation into controversial police operation killing 25 in Rio de Janeiro
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - On Friday, May 7th, the United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights, through its spokesperson Ruppert Colville, said...
Police operation causes “the biggest massacre in the history of Rio de Janeiro”
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - A violent police operation carried out this Thursday, May 6, against a group of criminals in a favela in...
Detective Testifies “There Was Intercourse Between Everyone” in Flordelis’ Family
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Detective Barbara Lomba, in charge of the first stage of investigations into the death of Pastor Anderson do Carmo,...