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Brazil: Rio de Janeiro Bill Will Encourage Police Shootings
October 02, 2025
NEW YORK, Oct. 2 [Category: International] -- Human Rights Watch posted the following news:

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Brazil: Rio de Janeiro Bill Will Encourage Police Shootings

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(Sao Paulo) - The governor of the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro should veto provisions in a new bill that would give civil police an economic incentive to kill suspects and would weaken forensic analysis, Human Rights Watch said today.

On September 24, the state legisla . . .

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