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Tag: Amnesty International Brazil

  • Tuesday, July 24th 2018 - 02:31 UTC

    Police violence in Rio remains as savage as 25 years ago, claims Amnesty

    On 23 July 1993 eight boys who were sleeping rough near Rio's Candelária Church were killed by off duty officers as part of a non official “extermination” policy

    The struggle to protect black Brazilian youths from police violence and deliver justice for the victims of the past remains as vital and relevant as ever, Amnesty International said on the 25th anniversary of the Candelária massacre, in which eight young boys were killed by off-duty police officers in Rio de Janeiro.

  • Saturday, June 18th 2016 - 07:13 UTC

    Rio under “state of public calamity” with seven weeks before the Olympics

    The Rio de Janeiro Olympics, which will run August 5-21, and Paralympics, which will run September 7-18, will be the first to be held in South America.

    Brazil's Rio state authorities have declared a “state of public calamity” over a major budget crisis, in order to release emergency funds to finance the Olympic Games. The decree authorizes the state to “adopt all necessary emergency measures to ration essential public services in order for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games to take place”.