Manoel Leal de Oliveira

Year: 1998

Nationality: Brazil

Killed by: Government Officials

Location: Itabuna, Brazil

Press organization: A Regiao

What's Manoel Leal de Oliveira's story?

On January 14, 1998, Manoel Leal de Oliveira, publisher and editor of A Região, the largest weekly in southern Bahía state at the time, was shot and killed by assailants who had followed him as he was driving home, according his son Marcel, who spoke to CPJ on the phone and wrote about the killing in A Região.

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