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By Fabiana Frayssinet
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, Oct. 23, 2007 (IPS/GIN) -- A Brazilian court ruled late Monday night to uphold the 27-year sentence handed down to a hired killer who murdered U.S.-born nun and activist Dorothy Stang in 2005.
Stang was an environmentalist and human rights defender who spent more than three decades in Brazil working on behalf of landless peasants.
The hired killer, Rayfran das Neves, was sentenced to 27 years in prison in May. But in Brazil, a sentence longer than 20 years automatically qualifies the convicted party for a new trial with a different jury.
The jury in Belm, the capital of the northwestern state of Par , voted 7-0 at midnight Monday after a 14-hour trial to confirm the earlier sentence given to the man who confessed to shooting the 74-year-old Stang on Feb. 12, 2005, near Anap[pounds sterling], a rural village located 700 kilometers from the state capital.
Sister Dorothy Stang worked as a missionary for 23 years in that Amazon jungle village, supporting the struggle of poor farmers against abuses by loggers and ranchers and fighting the destruction of the rainforest.
Human rights lawyer Aton Fon, one of the attorneys for the plaintiffs in the case,...
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