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Amnesty: 11 People Killed by Police in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro This Month

HeadlineApr 29, 2016

Amnesty International says police in Brazil have killed at least 11 people this month in Rio de Janeiro, where the Olympic Games are set to begin in less than 100 days. Amnesty says the majority of the victims are young black men from the city’s poorer neighborhoods, known as favelas. In 2015, 307 people were killed by police in Rio—which accounted for one in every five homicides.

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