A demonstration, held in front of the Embassy of Brazil in London, English capital, this Thursday (9), demanded answers for the disappearance of British journalist Dom Philips and indigenist Bruno Pereira in Vale do Javari, in Amazonas.
Phillips, a freelancer who has worked for The Guardian, the Washington Post and other publications, and Pereira, a former employee of the National Indian Foundation (Funai), disappeared in the Amazon jungle on Sunday (5).
The journalist’s brothers, Sian and Gareth Phillips, joined protesters outside the Brazilian embassy on Thursday.
Phillips and Pereira were on a reporting trip to Vale do Javari, a remote jungle area that is home to the largest number of uncontacted indigenous people in the world, as well as cocaine smuggling gangs and poachers and illegal fishermen.
The federal government has dispatched teams from the Navy, Army and Federal Police to join a search for the pair in a vast indigenous reserve covering an area larger than Austria, but local groups have criticized security forces for delaying relief efforts.
Source: CNN Brasil
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