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A panel said Jair Bolsonaro should be charged with crimes against humanity over Brazil's pandemic response. It dropped a recommended homicide charge.

Wednesday, October 20, 2021 12:51 AM EST

A Brazilian congressional panel had initially recommended in the report that Mr. Bolsonaro be charged with mass homicide and genocide against Indigenous groups in the Amazon. But less than a day after The Times and several Brazilian news outlets reported on those plans, several senators said that the accusations had gone too far.

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