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SAO PAULO, May 20 (UPI) -- A rancher sentenced to 30 years in prison in the slaying of a U.S. missionary in Brazil can remain free while he appeals his conviction, a judge has ruled.
BELEM, Brazil, April 13 (UPI) -- A jury in Brazil has sentenced a rancher to 30 years in prison for hiring an assassin to kill an American-born missionary who organized rural settlers.
RIO DE JANEIRO, April 12 (UPI) -- A Brazilian rancher accused of arranging the 2005 killing of an American nun in the Amazon region will face a retrial, authorities said.
DENVER, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Brazilian prosecutors allege a documentary film has undermined the alibi of a rancher suspected in the killing of Sister Dorothy Stang.
UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- Seven people, including slain Pakistani leader Benazir Bhutto, were honored for their human rights efforts Wednesday by the U.N. General Assembly in New York.
BRASILA, Brazil, Oct. 22 (UPI) -- Two men convicted of killing an American nun in the Brazilian Amazon will get a new trial as part of the appeals process, O Globo reported Monday.
BELEM, Brazil, May 14 (UPI) -- A Brazilian man accused of ordering the death of a nun working in the Amazon region Monday denied playing a role in her slaying. Vitalmiro Bastos de Moura told a court he had no part in the shooting death of Dorothy Stang in February 2005, Agencia Estado
RIO DE JANEIRO, April 27 (UPI) -- A third Brazilian man has been convicted and sentenced to prison for the February 2005 murder of an American nun working in the Amazon, O Globo reported Thursda
SAO PAULO, Dec. 11 (UPI) -- Two Brazilians have been found guilty of killing a U.S.-born Catholic nun who fought ranchers and logging companies on behalf of local peasants.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 15 (UPI) -- Brazilian police have arrested three suspects in the killing of a U.S. anthropology professor in the Brazilian Amazon, investigators said Monday.
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