The protest measure was lifted Friday morning, after fifteen hours of occupation, as a result of a court warrant.

The entrance to the Trans-Amazonian highway was blocked and the activists also demanded the government to send new negotiators to solve the conflict, acoording to the coalition “Xingu peoples against Belo Monte”.

Indigenous, fisherfolk and environmental activists took part in the occupation, according to information published by the Indigenist Missionary Council (Cimi), which has also demanded the halt of the works.

The occupation was peaceful and the demonstrators did not find resistance from the police and the security guards working there, reports Cimi, cited by the Radio Nacional da Amazonia.

The demand to the government is based on the fact that this project would flood over 500 square kilometers of land and it began to be built without prior consultation to the indigenous communities that will be affected by it.

There are currently twelve ongoing trials against Belo Monte, a project questioned by agencies like the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), which ordered the suspension of the works, without success.