Brazil - Fatal shooting of cameraman in Brazil raises questions about journalists' safety

Reporters without borders

Gelson Domingos da Silva, a cameraman with the radio and TV group Rede Bandeirantes, home of the television station of the same name, was fatally wounded yesterday while he was covering a police operation in the Antares favela, in the west of Rio de Janeiro. Since the beginning of this year, five journalists have been killed in Brazil, as a direct or probable result of their profession. “We express our sincerest condolences to the family and colleagues of Gelson Domingos, whose death (...)

© Reporters sans frontières - lundi 7 novembre 2011