Brazilian prosecutors on Thursday charged the suspected mastermind of the 2022 murders of Indigenous rights activist Bruno Pereira and British journalist Dom Phillips over the killings, which caused international outcry.

Pereira and Phillips, who freelanced for outlets including The Guardian and The Washington Post, were shot dead in the Amazon rainforest on June 5, 2022.

A Brazilian federal police probe concluded they were killed because of Pereira's monitoring of poaching and other illegal activities going on in the vast Amazon.

Three years to the day after the murders, a prosecutor from Amazonas state indicted the suspected mastermind, the state prosecutor's office said in a statement.

The suspect was not named, but the police had previously said they believed Ruben Dario da Silva V

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