{
  "id": 18524151,
  "title": "‘Stringing me along’: After 7 years, trial in Indigenous forest guardian killing delayed again",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/06/stringing-me-along-after-7-years-trial-in-indigenous-forest-guardian",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-06T15:41:52.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Mongabay",
    "slug": "mongabay",
    "url": "https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/stringing-me-along-after-7-years-trial-in-indigenous-forest-guardian-killing-delayed-again/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Following a seven-year delay, the trial for the 2019 killing of Indigenous forest guardians Paulo Paulino Guajajara and Láercio Guajajara remains yet to commence in Brazil's Amazon region. The advisory staff to the judge explained the absence of court slots for the trial, sparking frustration among Guajajara Indigenous people, activists, and authorities. Paulo Guajajara's father, José Maria Paulino Guajajara, expressed his disappointment, stating, \"It's been seven years already! That's exactly why I'm here, feeling pretty fed up, to say the least.\" Laércio Guajajara echoed similar sentiments, criticizing the justice system, saying, \"When someone kills an Indigenous person, it's as if it's nothing at all — just the same as killing any animal.\" The alleged ambush occurred on November 1, 2019, in Arariboia Indigenous Territory, Maranhão state. A pending anthropological report, released in August 2025, documented the collective damages inflicted on the Indigenous community by the crimes, offering some solace to the Guajajara community, activists, and authorities.",
  "summary": "Why hasn’t the trial for the 2019 killing of forest guardian Paulo Paulino Guajajara and the attempted killing of fellow guardian Láercio Guajajara, in the Brazilian Amazon, taken place yet? “[T]here are no available slots on the court’s hearing calendar,” the advisory staff to the judge in the case told Mongabay in an emailed statement, […]",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}