Tim Lopes
Year: 2002
Nationality: Brazil
Killed by: Criminal Group
Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Press organization: TV Globo
What's Tim Lopes's story?
Lopes, an award-winning investigative reporter with TV Globo, was brutally murdered by drug traffickers. He had disappeared several days earlier while working on assignment in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro in a favela, an impoverished community that sits on the outskirts of the city.
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