The Ministry of Human Rights and Citizenship states that it is in contact with the family of the former federal deputy and missing politician to define how the family prefers to receive the corrected death certificate.
This Thursday (23) to record that the parliamentarian died violently and caused by the Brazilian State during the . The information was and confirmed by Sheet.
The Special Commission on Political Deaths and Disappearances and the Human Rights department are organizing sessions to deliver revised death certificates. According to the department’s advisors, families should contact the commission to inform where they would like to receive the new document.
To do this, the guidance is that they respond to a form with information on the contacts necessary to enable their participation in the solemn ceremonies organized by the Commission.
“Considering the importance of this historic achievement and reaffirming our commitment to memory, truth and justice, we created this form to collect information from family members of political dead and missing people”, says the Ministry’s website with the link to access the form.
Rubens Paiva, whose story is told in the film “”, had his certificate changed to indicate the cause of death as “unnatural; violent; caused by the Brazilian State in the context of the systematic persecution of the population identified as political dissidents of the dictatorial regime established in 1964 “.
In the previous version, issued in 1996 by the Sé registry office, in São Paulo, after the mobilization of Eunice Paiva, his wife, to recognize her husband’s death, it only stated that he had disappeared in 1971.
The change complies with a determination made in December last year for civil registry offices to prepare or correct the documents of political dead and missing people.
“”, said the president of the council and president of the minister at the time. The initiative was from the Ministry of Human Rights and Citizenship.
The questionnaire must be answered by a representative family member and another can be nominated to participate in the ceremony to hand over the corrected death certificate. The family member can also choose not to be at the ceremony. In this case, the document will be delivered after evaluating the specific case.
Another point informed by the government is that the representative can choose to receive the certificate at the ceremony held in the state where they live or in the place of origin of the deceased or missing family member.
