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British reporter, Brazilian expert remembered a year after murder in Amazon

Relatives, friends and Alessandra Sampaio, widow of British journalist Dom Phillips, take part in a demonstration one year after Phillips and Brazilian Indigenous issues expert, Bruno Pereira, were killed in the Amazon, in Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil June 5, 2023. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares

A year after the murders of British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira deep in the Amazon rainforest, friends, relatives and admirers gathered on Monday to call for justice and protection of Indigenous lands.

Phillips and Pereira vanished on June 5, 2022 on a trip to the remote Javari Valley near the border with Peru. Days later, a fisherman who had confronted Indigenous patrols in the area confessed to killing them.

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