In Rio, A Celebration of Life

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Relatives of people killed during a police raid on October 28, 2025 release balloons during a remembrance event in Complexo da Penha, a cluster of favelas in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on the one-year anniversary of the police operation. © 2026 João Paulo Casalino for Human Rights Watch It takes a long time to read more than a hundred names. I stood holding a white balloon alongside the victims’ relatives, some wearing T-shirts bearing photos of their loved ones. The list went on and on. As Tauã Brito said name after name, as if reading tombstones, the scale of the tragedy…

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