Councillor beats critical journalist to death

A city councillor who took objection to a magazine article beat the journalist responsible, a man aged 73, to death. Ajuricaba Monassa de Paula had written about questionable administrative practices by the municipal council in Guapirimim, a town in Rio de Janeiro state. He was in the town square when Osvaldo Vivas a councillor who happents to be a martial arts expert, began hitting Monassa until he collapsed. He died of his injuries in hospital. (Via Reporters sans frontières - AMERICAS)