Brazil must bring to justice all those behind the 2022 double murder of British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, media watchdog Reporters Without Borders urged on Wednesday.
The demand came in the wake of Brazilian federal police on Monday wrapping up a two-year probe into the killings which took place in the Amazon rainforest.
That investigation concluded that Phillips, who freelanced for outlets including The Guardian and The Washington Post, and Pereira were shot dead because of Pereira’s monitoring of poaching and other illegal activities going on in the vast Amazon.
It said an alleged mastermind behind the killings was charged for having “supplied the rounds for the perpetration of the crime, provided financial support to the criminal organization’s activities and who was involved in coordinating the concealments of the bodies.”
While the police report did not name the alleged mastermind, Brazilian media reports identified him …