Some of the major organizations dedicated to advocating freedom of speech and press freedom around the world and in Brazil this Friday requested precautionary measures to “protect life” with the Organization of American States’ Commission on Human Rights for the Americas. and the integrity of Dom Phillips and Bruno Araújo Pereira”. They have been lost in the Amazon since June 5th.
Article 19, Instituto Vladimir Herzog, La Alianza Regional por la Libre Expresión e Información, Reporters Without Borders, ABRAJI and Washington Brazil Office and others signed the document.
The initiative comes the day when the UN criticizes the Brazilian government’s initial response, calling it “extremely slow”. The UN urged authorities to “double up their efforts” to find journalists and locals.
The organizations ask the Commission to “instruct the Brazilian State to take the necessary measures to locate and protect the location of Phillips and Pereira; region. Amazon”.
The document also calls for “quick investigation of facts, if necessary, in collaboration with countries sharing the border with Brazil, with qualified experts who know the area and have equipment and means of transport that allow for a thorough search of their location.” region.”
The document also demands that the federal government “stop supporting statements that attribute responsibility for what happened to the victims, or even to the region and related mobility challenges.”
President Jair Bolsonaro commented, “In a region like this, just two people on a boat, it’s a completely wild, not recommended adventure.”
“This statement shows knowledge of the possibility of serious crimes against the journalist and locals, but what we see is very little action based on this knowledge,” said Denise Dora, executive director of Artigo 19. The president reveals the government’s indifference and unwillingness to investigate the case.
“The government’s efforts to mobilize teams to search came two days after the disappearance of the journalist and the local, and after civil society, human rights organizations and national and international media took action on the case,” he explains. there.
The document also reminds us that the Brazilian State failed to implement the 2018 Americas Commission’s recommendations. Among the proposals in question was a call to “guarantee the effective and holistic implementation of measures to protect human rights defenders, especially those living in rural areas”. areas and urban centres”; and “to investigate with due diligence acts of violence against human rights defenders and other groups at risk.”
source: Noticias
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