Paris (AFP) - The election of a far-right president in Brazil will not drive gay campaigners underground, the sister of murdered activist campaigner Marielle Franco has vowed -- while warning that minorities face grave danger under Jair Bolsonaro.

Anielle Franco, whose sister was a prominent black and LGBT rights activist until her death in March, said Bolsonaro's victory had already unleashed a wave of hatred in Brazil.

"Since Sunday we have had so many cases of violence -- people who are screaming at each other in the face, hitting people," the 34-year-old told AFP in an interview in Paris on Tuesday.

"Bolsonaro said he is going to 'clean' -- that's the way he said it -- homosexuals, poor people and black people," she said, speaking on the sidelines of the Human Rights World Summit.

"I'm scared of him," Franco said, but she added she was also scared of "people who voted for him" who might now feel liberated to attack minorities.

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"I think people were just hiding behind their opinions, and Bolsanaro now gives them the right to just say this crazy stuff out loud," she said.

"So we are very scared and in danger."

Franco however remained defiant that gay activists like her sister, gunned down in central Rio de Janeiro in what appeared to be a professional hit, would not hide from Bolsonaro.

"I'm pretty sure LGBT organisations are not going to hide -- they are going to go to the fight and the frontline, and say 'we exist'," she said.

Brazil: An Urgent Call to Protect Rights

(São Paulo) - Brazil´s judiciary and other key institutions should resist any attempt to undermine human rights, the rule of law, and democracy under Jair Bolsonaro’s government, Human Rights Watch said today.

Bolsonaro, a pro-torture, openly bigoted member of Congress, won a run-off election on October 28, 2018 and will take office as president of Brazil on January 1, 2019.

“Brazil has independent judges, committed prosecutors and public defenders, courageous reporters, and a vibrant civil society,” said José Miguel Vivanco, Americas director at Human Rights Watch. “We will join them in standing up against any attempt to erode the democratic rights and institutions that Brazil has painstakingly built in the last three decades.”

Bolsonaro defeated the Workers Party candidate, Fernando Haddad, after a campaign tarred by political violence. Many of the victims were lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people, women, and Afro-Brazilians. Read more via HRW