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The Guardian - UK
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Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro

Anti-racism protesters march in Brazil after refugee murdered in Rio

A demonstrator carries a banner during a protest against the death of Congolese refugee Moïse Mugenyi Kabagambe.
A demonstrator carries a banner during a protest against the death of Congolese refugee Moïse Mugenyi Kabagambe. Photograph: Lucas Landau/Reuters

Thousands of protesters have hit the streets of some of Brazil’s biggest cities to denounce racist violence after the murder of a young Congolese refugee on one of Rio’s most famous beaches.

On Saturday morning demonstrators flocked to the waterside bar where 24-year-old Moïse Mugenyi Kabagambe was beaten to death late last month with fists, feet and sticks.

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