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Radio journalist who “annoyed politicians” murdered in Bahia state

NewsReporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Brazilian authorities to conduct a thorough investigation into yesterday’s murder of Marlon Carvalho, a radio station presenter and reporter in the northeastern state of Bahia, and to focus on the hypothesis that he was killed in connection with his journalism. The third radio presenter to be murdered this year in Brazil, the 37-year-old Carvalho was shot dead in his home in the small town of Riachão do Jacuípe in the early hours of 16 Au

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