A judge has handed down long sentences to two former police officers for the 2018 murder of Rio de Janeiro city councilwoman ...

Councilwoman Marielle Franco, 38, and her driver, Anderson Gomes, were killed in a drive-by shooting on March 14, 2018.

" ... [A]bout eight out of 10 Black women in the 2020 elections in Brazil experienced virtual violence; six out of 10 experienced moral and psychological violence, and five out of 10 suffered from ...

Franco, a gay Black woman, was an icon of the Brazilian left.A Brazilian judge on Thursday handed lengthy jail terms to two former cops over the 2018 killing of Rio de Janeiro councilwoman Marielle ...

Over six years after Brazilian councilwoman and Black LGBT activist Marielle Franco was murdered by former police officers ...

Two ex-police officers went on trial in Brazil on Wednesday over the 2018 assassination of charismatic black LGBT activist ...

Marielle Franco, known widely by her first name ... The case has drawn significant attention both within Brazil and ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The trial of the alleged killers of a Rio de Janeiro city councilwoman begins Wednesday, an assassination that shook Brazil and reverberated around the world.

A Brazilian court on Thursday sentenced the two the killers of iconic Black LGBT activist and city councilor Marielle Franco to 78 and 59 years in jail, respectively, after a two-day trial.

In Brazil, a trial got underway Wednesday for two former military police officers accused of assassinating Rio de Janeiro councilwoman Marielle Franco and her driver in a drive-by shooting in March of ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A judge on Thursday handed down long sentences to two former police officers for the 2018 killing of ...

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