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March 15, 2019

Brazil Marks One-Year Anniversary of Marielle Franco Assassination
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And in Brazil, thousands of people gathered for vigils in cities across
the country Thursday to mark the one-year anniversary of the
assassination of Marielle Franco. Franco was a member of Rio de
Janeiro's city council, and a human rights activist who challenged
police brutality in one of the world's most notorious police forces.
This week, police arrested two former police officers and charged them
with murdering Franco and her driver. This is David Miranda, a federal
congressperson from Rio de Janeiro, long-time friend of Marielle Franco,
and husband of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald.

David Miranda: "Marielle's legacy is her struggle, what she did when she
was alive and also now that she is dead. The legacy goes on, we are the
seeds of that legacy, of the fight she took on, of her voice, calling
out the genocide of young people in the favelas, the genocide of women
which we are seeing on a daily basis."



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