Two former politicians were convicted by Brazil’s Supreme Court on Wednesday of ordering the 2018 assassination of Rio de Janeiro councilwoman and activist Marielle Franco, whose murder exposed a web…

Two former politicians were convicted by Brazil’s Supreme Court on Wednesday of ordering the 2018 assassination of Rio de Janeiro councilwoman and activist Marielle Franco, whose murder exposed a web…

The trial of two politicians accused of ordering the murder of Rio de Janeiro councilwoman Marielle Franco has begun in Brazil. Franco, a black, lesbian activist who grew up in a favela and became an outspoken critic of Rio's powerful militia groups, was 38 when she was gunned down in the city center in 2018. The two former military police officers who carried out the murders were given hefty jail terms in 2024.

Two politicians and two former police officers were found guilty in the assassination of a rival, Marielle Franco, a Rio de Janeiro city councilwoman who fought corruption and violence.

Brazil's Supreme Court on Wednesday convicted two former lawmakers of ordering the 2018 assassination of Rio de Janeiro councilwoman Marielle Franco, a popular black activist whose murder exposed deep ties between politics and organized crime. Franco, an LGBTQ activist who grew up in a favela and became an outspoken critic of Rio's powerful militia groups, was 38 when she was gunned down in the city center alongside her driver, Anderson Gomes.