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Friday, 17 June 2022
** 'The Amazon is a lawless land'
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Journalist Dom Phillips and Bruno Araújo Pereira were killed in the Amazon while researching a book looking at the challenges facing Brazil's indigenous people. Index spoke ([link removed]) to one of the people who last saw them alive.
** Index expresses concern over Julian Assange extradition
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It is deeply disappointing that Home Secretary Priti Patel has approved the extradition of the Wikileaks founder to the United States, where he will face charges under the Espionage Act. We call on the international journalistic community to support Assange in the next stage of his battle against extradition as he takes his case to appeal. Read our statement on the case here ([link removed]) .
** The terrible price of refusing to remain silent
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[link removed] a week where we marked the anniversary of the murder of MP Jo Cox, we learned of the fate of two journalists in Brazil.
Index's CEO Ruth Smeeth says ([link removed]) we must learn from their deaths and that we continue to ensure that important voices cannot be silenced forever.
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