A British journalist and a Brazilian indigenous expert, who received threats, are missing in the Amazon, the daily announced Monday. tea Guardian and indigenous rights groups.
Freelance journalist Dom Phillips went missing while researching a book in the Javari Valley, along with well -known indigenous scholar Bruno Araujo Pereira, reports tea Guardian where the journalist regularly collaborates.
The two men traveled by boat to Lake Jaburu, located in the state of Amazonas (northwest), and will return on Sunday around 9 pm (local time) to the city of Atalaia do Norte, the Union of Indigenous Organizations of the Javari Valley (UNIVAJA) and the Observatory for the Human Rights of Isolated and Recently Contact Indigenous Peoples (OPI).
They had received threats on the field last week [précédant] their lossadded in a press release the two organizations.
The latter did not specify the type of threats received, but Bruno Araujo Pereira, a great connoisseur of the region and has worked for a long time at FUNAI, a government agency that manages indigenous peoples, is regularly the subject of threats. from the part of illegal loggers and miners who covet native lands.
FUNAI told AFP it was cooperating with local search authorities.
According to’UNIVAJA and theOPIthe two men left Atalaia do Norte to interview residents around a FUNAI base, and arrived at Lake Jaburu on Friday night.
They then returned on Sunday morning, stopping at a community where Bruno Pereira scheduled a meeting with the local leader to discuss the issue of indigenous patrols to combat raids of land.
The local leader did not arrive, the two men decided to return to Atalaia do Norte, two hours away by boat, according to these two organizations. They were traveling in a new boat, with 70 liters of fuel, enough for traveland has satellite communication equipment, according to the same source.
tea Guardian said in his press release very worried about his occasional companion, whose articles are also regularly published by tea New york Hours, tea Washington Post and other media.
We condemn all attacks and violence against journalists and media workers. We hope that Dom and his traveling companions will soon be found safe and sound.added daily.
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