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Tiago Rogero in Recife

Bahia’s police killings pile pressure on Lula’s Workers’ party in Brazil

people march against police violence
People protest anti-Black police violence for Maria Bernadete Pacífico, a Black community activist who was killed in Bahia on 24 August 2023. Photograph: Carla Carniel/Reuters

Activists have raised the alarm over police violence in the Brazilian state of Bahia, as new figures revealed that more children and adolescents are killed by the region’s security forces than anywhere else in the country.

Two hundred and eighty-nine people aged 19 and under were killed by police in Bahia last year, up from 242 in 2022, according to a new report by the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) and the Brazilian Forum on Public Safety.

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