{"id":32780,"date":"2012-02-13T16:29:11","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T16:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=32780"},"modified":"2012-02-13T16:29:11","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T16:29:11","slug":"brazil-political-journalist-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=32780","title":{"rendered":"Brazil: Political journalist shot dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brazilian political journalist M\u00e1rio Randolfo Marques Lopes and his girlfriend were <a title=\"Knight Center - Just months after surviving assassination attempt, Brazilian political journalist shot to death  \" href=\"http:\/\/knightcenter.utexas.edu\/blog\/00-8983-just-months-after-surviving-assassination-attempt-brazilian-political-journalist-shot-d?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+kcblogen+%28Journalism+in+the+Americas%29\" target=\"_blank\">kidnapped and shot dead<\/a> in the early hours of 9 February in Barra do Pira\u00ed, Rio de Janeiro state. Known for being critical of local authorities on his website, Lopes had faced more than one attempt on his life. He was reportedly shot five times in the head when a\u00a0gunman burst into the website&#8217;s newsroom around four months ago, and survived being <a title=\"Knight Center - Journalist shot in attempted homicide in Brazil\" href=\"https:\/\/knightcenter.utexas.edu\/blog\/journalist-shot-attempted-homicide-brazil\" target=\"_blank\">shot<\/a> three times at his home last July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazilian political journalist M\u00e1rio Randolfo Marques Lopes and his girlfriend were kidnapped and shot dead in the early hours of 9 February in Barra do Pira\u00ed, Rio de Janeiro state. Known for being critical of local authorities on his website, Lopes had faced more than one attempt on his life. He was reportedly shot five [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[744,584,585],"tags":[7396,905,4282,727],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32780"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32780"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32868,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32780\/revisions\/32868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}