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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
World
Tiago Rogero, South America correspondent

Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira: murder charge dropped against one of three suspects

Oseney da Costa de Oliveira, Jefferson da Silva Lima and Amarildo da Costa de Oliveira.
Oseney da Costa de Oliveira, Jefferson da Silva Lima and Amarildo da Costa de Oliveira. Composite: Supplied

Appeal judges in Brazil yesterday upheld charges against only two of the three men accused of murdering Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips, in a decision “received with indignation” by Indigenous activists.

The three judges ruled that there was “insufficient evidence of authorship or participation” by Oseney da Costa de Oliveira, a fisher, in the 2022 deaths of the Brazilian Indigenous expert and the British Guardian journalist.

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