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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Andrew Downie

Brazil ‘failing to fully investigate’ Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira murders

Protesters in Rio de Janeiro with a banner calling for justice for the murders of Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips
Protesters in Rio de Janeiro with a banner calling for justice for the murders of Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips. Photograph: Luciola Villela/AFP/Getty Images

Leading human rights organisations have criticised the Brazilian government for what they say is a failure to properly investigate the murders of the Indigenous activist Bruno Pereira and the British journalist Dom Phillips.

The two men were shot dead in June but eight organisations said that from the moment they disappeared, to the discovery of their bodies, to the indictment of three men for their murders, Brazilian authorities have “not employed sufficient resources to fully comprehend all the elements in the case and the responsibility of all those involved”.

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