Brazil - Radio station manager shot dead amid mounting violence against journalists

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders condemns Rádio Meridional manager Cláudio Moleiro de Souza's death in a shooting by an intruder inside the radio station in Jaru, in the northwestern state Rondônia, on 12 October. A colleague, Alberto Dutra Duran, was wounded in the attack. “We urge the authorities to act quickly in order to shed all possible light on this murder,” Reporters Without Borders said. “The police have ruled out theft as a motive and have established that Souza was the target. As the motive (...)

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