"The Union of Professional Journalists of the Federal District (SJPDF, for its initials in Portuguese) and the National Federation of Journalists (FENAJ) vehemently repudiate the extrajudicial harassment by the Canadian mining company Sigma Lithium S.A. that seeks to censor the work of independent journalism promoted by the Mining Observatory, an organization based in Brasília.
The entities demand that the Ministry of Justice, through the Observatory of Violence against Journalists, monitor the case and demand that the foreign company respect the work of the national media.
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The multinational company threatened the press agency with legal action if it published a technical note from Brazilian and English researchers about the company's activities in lithium extraction in the Jequitinhonha Valley, in Minas Gerais (MG).
The technical note recommended the suspension of Sigma's activities due to serious human rights violations and irregularities in environmental licensing. The article was published on May 7."
