Brazilian activists have condemned the “far-fetched” attempt by the alleged murderers of Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips to contend they committed the crime in “self-defence” after supposedly being shot at by the Indigenous activist.
Pereira and Phillips, a British journalist and longtime Guardian contributor, were killed on the Amazon’s Itaquaí River last June while returning from a reporting trip to the remote Javari Valley region, where Pereira had worked defending Indigenous communities from illegal fishing, poaching and mining gangs.
