Brazilian journalist Robson Giorno shot and killed in Rio de Janeiro state

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Committee to Protect Journalists


May 30, 2019 2:30 PM ET

São Paulo, May 30, 2019 -- Authorities in Rio de Janeiro must make every effort to find and prosecute those responsible for the killing of journalist Robson Giorno, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

On May 25, unknown individuals knocked on the door of Giorno's home in Maricá, a coastal town in Rio de Janeiro state, and lured him to the street, where individuals in a car shot him six times, according to news reports. He died at the scene, according to those reports.

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Bárbara Lomba, the homicide detective in charge of the investigation, described the killing as "an execution" and "an ambush," according to local news website Maricá Info.

Lomba told reporters that she believed Giorno was killed because of his journalism or his political activity, according to the news website, which reported that Giorno had declared his intention to run for office in Maricá.

Read more: https://cpj.org/2019/05/Robson-Giorno-killed-brazil.php

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Robson Giorno
Rest in Peace

[Chin music]

1. Sounds like something the russians would do.

[ancianita]

2. It's the fascist company our Kashioggi-killing friends keep, what murdering fascist leaders do

Fascists call their press the enemy of the people, kill inconvenient truths, facts, then anyone who persists in reporting them.

The Russian dogma that facts are the enemy, that truth and reality are whatever they choose to make them, -- that dogma surrounds Trump and his lawyer, Giuliani, both of whom say Truth is not Truth. Everything's a hoax, fake, witch hunt, piling fiction on fiction.

Journalists, whistle blowers, leakers, open us up to reality, the basis of our free will and freedom.

Here are the countries we keep company with in the killing of journalists:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Killed_journalists_by_country

[Judi Lynn]

4. Floored by seeing Honduras has 18 assassinations, there. It's such a small country, too.

It was nicknamed the U.S.S. Honduras during Reagan's Presidency, since it was used like a Navy Carrier, launching battles on Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador from within Honduras. Very, very sad history, leading right up to this very moment.

Very interesting link you posted. Phillipines, Russia, U.S. all right at the top of the list. Good grief!

Thank you.

[ancianita]

5. If we don't stay vigilant, we'll be ambushed.

[ck4829]

3. Depressing

[Blue_Tires]

6. Greenwald as always was unavailable for comment