Weekly Report - 20 March 2014 (WR-14-11)

A shaky camera phone held by a nervous driver shows the body of a woman being dragged from the back of the police car in front. At a traffic light, someone notifies one of the police officers that there is something hanging out of the back of the boot. He gets out, stuffs the body back in the boot and drives off. On 18 March Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff tweeted her condolences: “Cláudia da Silva Ferreira had 4 children, was married for over 20 years and woke up at dawn to work in a hospital. Her death has shocked the country.”

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