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Brazil police probe illegal fishing figures in case of missing British journalist Dom Phillips and tribal expert Bruno Araújo Pereira

Brazilian police investigating the disappearance of a British journalist and an Indigenous expert in the Amazon rainforest are focusing on people involved in illegal fishing and poaching from Indigenous lands.

ABC News · Jun 10, 2022

Brazil police probe ties to illegal fishing in case of missing British journalist

Brazilian police investigating the disappearance of a British journalist and an indigenous expert in the Amazon rainforest are focusing on people involved in illegal fishing and poaching in indigenous lands, three officers told Reuters.

Reuters · Jun 9, 2022

The disappearance of journalist Dom Phillips in Brazil should leave you incandescent with rage

Jair Bolsonaro’s dog-whistle politics is risking the lives of Indigenous people and the reporters who tell their stories, says Lucy Jordan, Brazil correspondent for Unearthed

The Guardian - UK · Jun 9, 2022

Brazilian police open criminal probe amid search for British journalist

Brazilian police have opened a criminal probe and interviewed at least four witnesses believed to be among the last to have seen a British journalist and an indigenous expert who went missing in a remote and lawless part of the Amazon jungle on Sunday.

Reuters · Jun 7, 2022

Brazil indigenous agency monitoring reported rape of Yanomami by miners

The Brazilian government's indigenous affairs agency Funai said on Wednesday that it is looking into a report that a Yanomami teenager died after she was abducted and raped by illegal gold miners on her reservation.

Reuters · Apr 27, 2022