The late Brazilian environmental activist Chico Mendes has been officially rehabilitated more than 20 years after his death. The Brazilian government published the decision in today's edition of the gazette.
Mr Mendes' widow will receive 112,000 euros in damages and a life pension of 1,000 euros a month. Chico Mendes was also acquitted of all charges brought against him.
The former union leader is known as one the first prominent activists fighting for the preservation of Brazil's tropical rainforest. He was shot dead outside his house by landowners in 1988.
Before that, he was repeatedly prosecuted by the then Brazilian dictatorship.
http://www.radionetherlands.nl/news/international/6172892/Brazilian-environmental-activist-rehabilitated
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