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Evany José Metzker
Evany José Metzker was a Brazilian blogger and journalist who in 2015 was found decapitated. Death Metzker had been working on a series of stories in the Jequitinhonha Valley, one of Brazil's poorest regions, when he was killed. After his body was found, investigators determined that he had been tortured, scalped, and then beheaded. Records show that Metzker had been investigating political corruption, child prostitution, and drug dealing. On his blog, he often reported on corrupt officials and politicians. He was missing for five days before police found his body. His family said the police had received an anonymous tip as to where they could find his remains which were subsequently found near Padre Paraíso in Minas Gerais. Context At least fourteen journalists have been killed since 2011 in retaliation for their work. Brazil is the third most dangerous country for journalists in Latin America after Mexico and Colombia. Other journalists were killed around the same time as M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brackets
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. They come in four main pairs of shapes, as given in the box to the right, which also gives their names, that vary between British English, British and American English. "Brackets", without further qualification, are in British English the ... marks and in American English the ... marks. Other symbols are repurposed as brackets in specialist contexts, such as International Phonetic Alphabet#Brackets and transcription delimiters, those used by linguists. Brackets are typically deployed in symmetric pairs, and an individual bracket may be identified as a "left" or "right" bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the Writing system#Directionality, directionality of the context. In casual writing and in technical fields such as computing or linguistic analysis of grammar, brackets ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcos De Barros Leopoldo Guerra
Marcos de Barros Leopoldo Guerra (ca. 1963 – December 23, 2014), was a Brazilian blogger known for his blog ''Ubatuba Cobra, located'' in Ubatuba, Brazil. Guerra was known for his denunciation of corrupt politicians in Ubatuba and nearby São Paulo. He died after being shot by two men in his home in Ubatuba. Guerra had been receiving death threats in response to the political content of his blog prior to his murder. Personal Guerra, 51 years old at the time of his murder, was born around 1963. He resided at Rua Santa Genoveva in the Praia do Tenório (Translated: Tenório Beach) neighborhood of Ubatuba, Brazil. He was single and lived with his 85-year-old father, who discovered his son's dead body. His funeral was on December 24, 2014. Career Guerra was a lawyer and journalist known for his blog, Ubatuba Cobra. He used his blog to investigate and criticize the corrupt actions of politicians in his home city of Ubatuba as well as nearby São Paulo. His posts on the misappropriatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murdered Journalists
Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse committed with the necessary intention as defined by the law in a specific jurisdiction. ("The killing of another person without justification or excuse, especially the crime of killing a person with malice aforethought or with recklessness manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life.") This state of mind may, depending upon the jurisdiction, distinguish murder from other forms of unlawful homicide, such as manslaughter. Manslaughter is killing committed in the absence of ''malice'',This is "malice" in a technical legal sense, not the more usual English sense denoting an emotional state. See malice (law). such as in the case of voluntary manslaughter brought about by reasonable provocation, or diminished capacity. ''Involuntary'' manslaughter, where it is recognized, is a killing that lacks all but the most attenuated guilty intent, recklessness. Most societies conside ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Assassinated Brazilian Journalists
Assassination is the willful killing, by a sudden, secret, or planned attack, of a personespecially if prominent or important. It may be prompted by political, ideological, religious, financial, or military motives. Assassinations are ordered by both individuals and organizations, and are carried out by their accomplices. Acts of assassination have been performed since ancient times. A person who carries out an assassination is called an assassin. Etymology ''Assassin'' comes from the Italian and French Assissini, believed to derive from the word ''hashshashin'' (), and shares its etymological roots with ''hashish'' ( or ; from ').''The Assassins: a radical sect in Islam'' – Bernard Lewis, pp. 11–12 It referred to a group of Nizari Ismailis known as the Order of Assassins who worked against various political targets. Founded by Hassan-i Sabbah, the Assassins were active in the Near East from the 11th to the 13th centuries. The group killed members of the Abbasid, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2015 Deaths
This is a list of lists of deaths of notable people, organized by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in ) and then linked below. 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 Earlier years ''Deaths in years earlier than this can usually be found in the main articles of the years.'' See also * Lists of deaths by day * Deaths by year (category) {{DEFAULTSORT:deaths by year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ítalo Eduardo Diniz Barros
Ítalo Eduardo Diniz Barros, (ca. 1985 – November 13, 2015), a Brazilian press officer who was employed by Mayor Marcel Curio in Governador Nunes Freire, Oeste Maranhense, Maranhão state, Northeast Region, Brazil, was known for blogging on his own website, Italodiniz.com, about local politicians and their alleged wrongdoings. Personal Ítalo Eduardo Diniz Barros was born around 1985, which made him 30 years old when murdered. He was son of Maria de Fatima Diniz Barros and he was married to Elida Moraes. Career Ítalo Eduardo Diniz Barros was employed as a press officer for Mayor Marcel Curio of Governador Nunes Freire, Maranhão. Diniz Barros first started his blog, Italiodiniz.com, in 2011 as a political outlet for him to defend rights and the public's right to know. On his blog, Diniz Barros published interviews with public officials, as well as accusations against them, and he allowed comments from readers about those posts. He also supplemented these posts with n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Décio Sá
Décio Sá (ca. 1970 – April 23, 2012) was a Brazilian political journalist for ''O Estado do Maranhão'' and a blogger for ''Blog do Décio'' and at one time worked for ''Folha de S. Paulo''. He was gunned down in a bar in São Luís, Maranhão, Brazil. Both the Committee to Protect Journalists and Reporters Without Borders confirmed, as well as police, that his death was related to his journalism. Personal Décio Sá was 42-years old when he was murdered. Sá's wife was pregnant at the time and the couple had one child. He was buried in São José de Ribamar on the São Luís Island on 24 April 2012. Career Décio Sá first worked for ''Folha de S. Paulo'' in the early 1990s. Afterward he began his 17 years career with the Brazilian newspaper ''O Estado do Maranhão''. During that time, he initiated his own blog, ''Blog do Décio'', with a focus on systemic injustice in Brazil. Décio was counted as one of the most influential journalists in northern Brazil. Décio Sá w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Padre Paraíso
Padre Paraíso is a Brazilian municipality located in the northeast of the state of Minas Gerais. Its population as of 2020 was estimated to be 20,252 people living in a total area of 543 km2. The city belongs to the mesoregion of Jequitinhonha and to the microregion of Araçuaí. It became a municipality in 1962. Geography Padre Paraíso is located on the Rio-Bahia highway (BR-116) at an elevation of 664 meters (center of the town). The climate is semi-arid and the region is mountainous. Neighboring municipalities are: Ponto dos Volantes - Caraí - Araçuaí. The distance to Belo Horizonte is 542 km. The distance to the nearest major population center, Teófilo Otoni is 94 km. Economy The economy is based on cattle raising, services, and subsistence agriculture, with the main crops being coffee, beans, manioc, sugarcane, and corn. The cattle herd had 8,000 head in 2006. In 2005 there were 639 rural producers but only 7 tractors. 2,100 persons were dependent on agr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edinaldo Filgueira
Edinaldo Filgueira, also spelled Ednaldo ( – 15 June 2011), was a Brazilian blogger and journalist and editor. He was owner of the newspaper and online ''Jornal o Serrano'' in Serra do Mel, Brazil. He was assassinated by gunmen as he left work. Filgueira was also active in party politics.Committee to Protect Journalists. 2011. "Edinaldo Filgueira." Retrieved September 21, 201CPJ/ref> He was believed to have been killed for a blog post critical of local government. Filgueira was the third blogger worldwide to have been known to be killed for their blog publications. The others were Iranian blogger Omid Reza Mir Sayafi, who died while in an Iranian prison in March 2009, and Bahraini Zakariya Rashid Hassan al-Ashiri, who was killed while in Bahraini custody in April 2011 during the Arab Spring uprising. Filgueira was the first blogger known to have been assassinated. Filgueira is listed by the Freedom Forum Journalists Memorial at Newseum as a journalist who died during 2011. D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Human Rights In Brazil
Human rights in Brazil include the right to life and freedom of speech; and condemnation of slavery and torture. The nation ratified the American Convention on Human Rights. The 2017 Freedom in the World report by Freedom House gives Brazil a score of "2" for both political rights and civil liberties; "1" represents the most free, and "7", the least. However, the following human rights problems have been reported: torture of detainees and inmates by police and prison security forces; inability to protect witnesses involved in criminal cases; harsh conditions; prolonged pretrial detention and inordinate delays of trials; reluctance to prosecute as well as inefficiency in prosecuting government officials for corruption; violence and discrimination against women; violence against children, including sexual abuse; human trafficking; police brutality; discrimination against black and indigenous people; failure to enforce labour laws; and child labour in the informal sector. Human righ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
