Criminals control Rio communications towers in 72 neighborhoods; blackmail operators
Organized crime in Rio de Janeiro has taken control of 26 telecommunications masts and antennae, asking communication companies to pay...
May 12, 2021Section
Rio de Janeiro
Rio Prosecutor’s Office, pressured by public opinion, creates task force on Jacarezinho massacre
The group is to investigate allegations of police abuse. "It was the baptism of fire of Bolsonarism with a bloodbath,"...
May 12, 2021
Aircraft makes emergency landing at Galeão Airport in Rio
An Azul aircraft bound to Brasilia made an emergency landing at the Tom Jobim International Airport In Rio de Janeiro,...
May 10, 2021
Jair Bolsonaro congratulates police on controversial operation leaving 28 dead in Rio favela
The president of Brazil, ultra-conservative Jair Bolsonaro, on Sunday congratulated the police for the questioned operation last Thursday in a...
May 10, 2021
A third of Rio Police operation’s victims have no criminal proceedings in Court
A survey conducted by Estadão on the Court's website on Saturday evening, May 8th, showed that no criminal proceedings are...
May 10, 2021
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,...
May 9, 2021
Death toll rises to 29 in controversial police operation in Rio de Janeiro favela
The death toll in the police operation that took place on Thursday in a favela in Rio de Janeiro rose...
May 8, 2021
STF Justice Fachin sees signs of “arbitrary executions” in Rio police operation
Justice Edson Fachin, one of the members of Brazil's Supreme Court, on Friday described as "serious" the allegations of abuses...
May 8, 2021
Appalled protesters demand justice for 25 lives lost in police operation in Rio de Janeiro
Demonstrators from the favela of Jacarezinho gathered this Friday in front of the Civil Police facilities in Rio de Janeiro...
May 7, 2021