Brazil - Four journalists killed since start of 2014

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders condemns yesterday's murder of TV and radio presenter Geolino Lopes Xavier in Teixeira de Freitas, in the northeastern state of Bahía. The co-manager of N3, a TV station on which he anchored the news programme A Tarde, Lopes was the fourth Brazilian journalist to be killed since the start of the year and the third to be the victim of a targeted shooting in the space of two weeks. Lopes was driving a car owned by the TV station and had just dropped off a colleague, (...)

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