Brazilian blogger murdered

Brazilian newspaper founder, blogger and political party leader Edinaldo Figueira was shot to death on 15 June. Figueira, president of a branch of the Workers' Party in Brazil's northern state of Rio Grande do Norte, had started a local newspaper and maintained a blog about local issues . Fellow bloggers suspect that the killing was linked to a survey that Figueira published on his blog that questioned the activities of city officials. Source: Knight Centre