Brazil - Shooting attack on outspoken Rio blogger, reprisal suspected

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders urges investigators to actively explore the possibility that yesterday's nearly fatal shooting attack on blogger Ricardo Gama on a Rio de Janeiro street was linked to his blog, which is often very scathing about the local authorities. The police said they were not ruling it out. Gama, 40, was in the Rio neighbourhood of Copacabana when individuals in a black car shot him three times, in the head, neck and shoulder. Onlookers went to his aid and he was rushed to a (...)

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