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Brazil police arrest 5 more in murders of journalist, Amazon expert

Brazil's federal police on Saturday arrested five more men in an investigation into the murder of British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira in the Amazon rainforest in June.

Reuters · Aug 6, 2022

Police arrest additional suspect in Amazon murder of British journalist

Brazilian police said on Friday that they had arrested a man known as "Colombia" as authorities investigate his possible involvement in the killings of British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira in the Amazon rainforest.

Reuters · Jul 8, 2022

Bruno Pereira obituary

Expert on the Indigenous peoples of Brazil committed to defending the traditional ways of life in the Amazon

The Guardian - UK · Jul 6, 2022

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Bolsonaro’s ‘surrender of Amazon to crooks played role in murders of Phillips and Pereira’

Brazilian president’s dismantling of environmental safeguards partly to blame, says politician leading inquiry

The Guardian - UK · Jul 4, 2022

Amazon wild west: where drugs, fish and logging are big money but life is cheap

Illegal businesses form an interlocking web in the Brazilian remote region where Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira were killed, threatening Indigenous communities and local ecology

The Guardian - US · Jul 1, 2022

Brazilian indigenous defender Pereira buried with traditional send-off

Bruno Pereira, the Brazilian indigenous defender killed this month while investigating threats to isolated tribes in the Amazon, was laid to rest Friday in his home state of Pernambuco in the country's northeast.

Reuters · Jun 24, 2022

Calls for justice amid fears inquiry into killings of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira stalling

Three men are in custody and more arrests are planned, but the suspected murder weapon has not been found

The Guardian - US · Jun 23, 2022

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‘We all demand justice’: the unsolved murder of the man Bruno Pereira mentored

The deaths of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira echo that of Maxciel Pereira dos Santos, the Indigenous protection agent killed in cold blood three years ago

The Guardian - UK · Jun 21, 2022

Brazilian authorities find boat of slain British journalist, indigenous expert

The boat used by killed British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian indigenous expert Bruno Pereira to travel Brazil's Amazon was found on Sunday evening, authorities said in a press statement.

Reuters · Jun 20, 2022

Five more suspects linked to murders of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira in Brazil

Police in Brazil have said eight people are suspects linked to the murders of British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira.

Evening Standard · Jun 20, 2022

Brazil police identify five more suspects in murder of British journalist

Brazilian federal police on Sunday said that five more suspects helped hide the bodies of British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, after having already arrested three men for their murder in the Amazon rainforest.

Reuters · Jun 19, 2022

Brazil police identify five more people linked to killings of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira

Officers have already arrested three people, one of whom confessed to killing British journalist and indigenous advocate

The Guardian - UK · Jun 19, 2022

Brazil indigenous defender, sidelined under Bolsonaro, gave life for 'abandoned' tribes

Six tribes from Brazil's remote Javari Valley packed into an assembly hall on June 11 to lament the disappearance of Bruno Pereira, an advisor to their collective, and Dom Phillips, a British journalist reporting on his work.

Reuters · Jun 19, 2022

‘Bolsonaro’s fingerprints are all over this’: how president’s war on Amazon played part in double killing

Brazil’s leader has steadily attacked those defending the region where journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira lost their lives

The Guardian - UK · Jun 18, 2022

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The Independent UK · Jun 18, 2022

Brazil Indigenous expert was 'bigger target' in recent years

Before disappearing in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, Bruno Pereira was laying the groundwork for a mammoth undertaking: a 350-kilometer (217-mile) trail marking the southwestern border of the Javari Valley Indigenous territory, an area the size of Portugal

The Guardian - UK · Jun 17, 2022

Friday briefing: How extreme heat is changing the way we live

In today’s newsletter: The climate crisis effects everyone, in different and unequal ways. Archie Bland takes a look at how this week’s scalding temperatures have played out on each continent

The Independent UK · Jun 16, 2022

Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira: Who are the men missing in the Amazon?

Respected journalist and expert guide have been missing since 5 June and a suspect has reportedly confessed to their murders, according to local police

The Independent UK · Jun 16, 2022

Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira: Family of murdered Briton say they are ‘heartbroken’

The two were last seen in the Amazon’s Javari Valley

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The Guardian - US · Jun 14, 2022

Brazil Indigenous agency staff strike over Bruno Pereira disappearance

Employees walk off the job amid anger over statements criticising the former Funai employee who went missing with Dom Phillips

Reuters · Jun 14, 2022

Brazil police arrest second suspect in case of missing journalist

Brazilian police on Tuesday arrested a second suspect in the investigation of the disappearance of British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira in the Amazon rainforest in western Brazil.

The Guardian - US · Jun 13, 2022

The writer and the activist: how Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira bonded over the Amazon

The two men spent years traveling together in canoes and on foot. They disappeared on what was supposed to be a final trip

The Independent UK · Jun 13, 2022

Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira: Who are the men missing in the Amazon?

Respected journalist and expert guide have been missing since 5 June and a suspect has reportedly confessed to their murders, according to local police

The Independent UK · Jun 13, 2022

Belongings of missing men found tied underwater in Amazon

Brazil’s search for an Indigenous expert and a journalist who disappeared in a restive area of the Amazon a week ago has advanced with the discovery of a backpack, laptop and other personal belongings of the men submerged in a river

Reuters · Jun 13, 2022

Belongings of missing British reporter and companion found in Amazon -police

Brazilian police said on Sunday search teams have discovered belongings of missing British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira who went missing in the Amazon rainforest a week ago.

The Independent UK · Jun 12, 2022

Pair's disappearance in Brazil's Amazon tied to 'fish mafia'

A main line of police investigation into the disappearance of a British journalist and an Indigenous official in the Amazon points to an international network that pays poor fishermen to fish illegally in Brazil’s second-largest Indigenous territory

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