The Lula government prepares a ceremony to apologize to official families of Rubens Paiva and from 413 missing politicians of the military dictatorship. The event, scheduled for April, will be held along with the delivery of rectified death certificates, recognizing that the deaths were “unnatural; violent; caused by the Brazilian State in the context of systematic persecution to the population identified as a political dissident of the dictatorial regime established in 1964 ”.
The initiative takes place after the National Council of Justice (CNJ) determines in December that the notary’s offices correct or draw documents from dead and missing political. The measure meets a recommendation of the National Human Rights Council, which reopened the investigation of the Rubens Paiva case in 2024, after the finding that the process had been filed in 1971 under the coercion of the military.
The impact of the movie “I’m still here”
The story of Rubens Paiva again gained repercussion after being portrayed in Walter Salles’s movie “I’m Still”, who received three Oscar nominations: Best Movie, Best Foreign Film and Best Actress for Fernanda Torres, as Eunice Paiva, widow of the former deputy.
With the impact of production, the government sanctioned this month the Eunice Paiva Award for Defense of Democracy, in honor of the activist, who became a lawyer and defender of human rights after her husband’s disappearance. Eunice Paiva passed away in 2018 at the age of 89.
After a process walks only after the release of the film, the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) defended, on Tuesday (28), that accused of participating in the disappearance of the former deputy. The Federal Public Prosecution Service calls for the conviction of five army officers for the crime. Their defense claims that acts are no longer punished.
