PERSECUTION OF APIB IS ATTACK ON BRAZILIAN DEMOCRACY
PERSECUTION OF APIB IS ATTACK ON BRAZILIAN DEMOCRACY 30 April 2021 By WWF-Brasil WWF-Brasil comes to the public to express its indignation at the intimidation suffered by the indigenous activist Sônia Guajajara, one of the executive coordinators of the Apib (Articulation of the Indigenous Peoples of Brazil), the target of an inquiry opened by the Federal Police. Under the absurd claim that, through the Maracá web-series, it would be distorting the numbers of indigenous people affected by COVID-19 and, thereby affecting the country's image, the investigation, which is being conducted under secrecy, is clearly abusive and shows the authoritarian face of the Bolsonaro government, which does not support independent voices pointing to the problems it tries to hide. This intimidation is worrying because it attacks free speech. This is not the first time, however, that this has occurred: researchers, journalists and environmental activists, such as the C...