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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
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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 Metzker.


Reactions

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Reporters Without Borders Reporters Without Borders (RWB; ; RSF) is an international non-profit and non-governmental organisation, non-governmental organization headquartered in Paris, which focuses on safeguarding the right to freedom of information. It describes its a ...
, an international NGO, released official statements in response to the murder, as did the Minas Gerais Journalists Union, a regional organization.


See also

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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 sc ...
* Edinaldo Filgueira *
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 ...
* Marcos de Barros Leopoldo Guerra * Orislandio Timóteo Araújo * Ítalo Eduardo Diniz Barros


References

2015 deaths Assassinated Brazilian journalists Murdered journalists 20th-century Brazilian journalists 21st-century Brazilian journalists Year of birth missing {{Brazil-journalist-stub