Peruvian loggers given 28 years in jail for murder of four Indigenous leaders

Victims - among them environmental defender Edwin Chota - were tortured before their deaths in Peruvian Amazon in 2014

Five illegal loggers in Peru have been given 28-year jail sentences for the murder of four Indigenous leaders, among them the prominent anti-logging campaigner Edwin Chota, in a rare win for environmental justice.

Nearly eight years after the 2014 quadruple murder, a court in Pucallpa in the Peruvian Amazon found the loggers, Eurico Mapes Gomez and the brothers Segundo and Josimar Atachi Felix, guilty of aggravated homicide against the leaders, and sentenced them on Thursday to 28 years and three months in prison.