Justice
Brazil's Ugly Pre-World Cup Sex-Worker Crackdown
While concerns about sex tourists dominate the headlines, the bigger threat for Rio's sex workers may be the local police force.
RIO DE JANEIRO – Sex workers in the Brazilian city of Niterói, just across Guanabara Bay from Rio de Janeiro, say that 100 of their colleagues were illegally arrested, robbed, and some of them even raped by police in late May.
It's an acceleration of violence against sex workers by police with orders to tidy up Rio’s massive sex industry before the 2014 World Cup kicks off June 12.