Indigenous protesters who blocked a key highway through the Brazilian Amazon demanding help against deforestation and the coronavirus pandemic ...
Members of the Kayapo indigenous group had blocked highway BR163 during a protest in the outskirts of Novo Progresso in Para State, Brazil. RIO DE JANEIRO: Indigenous protesters who blocked a key highway through the Brazilian Amazon demanding help against deforestation and the coronavirus pandemic said on Thursday they were suspending their protest after a judge ordered the government to respond.
The protesters had however been lifting the barricade periodically in what they called a"humanitarian" gesture for drivers stranded in the long line of blocked trucks. "The judge gave FUNAI and DNIT 10 days to . If they don't, they'll have to pay a fine of 10,000 reals a day," said one of the protest leaders, Mudjere Kayapo."If we have to, we'll come back and close the highway again," he told AFP.
The protesters initially vowed to defy the order, but said they had now decided to press their case in court instead.
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