The 2nd Federal Civil Court of the Grant to the advertiser, 83, widow of the journalist, lifetime pension due to the murder of her husband by the Brazilian state in 1975.
The decision, rendered in an injunction (urgent and temporary) on January 31, gives clarice payments by the government in the amount of nearly $ 35,000 monthly in reparation for Herzog’s death and states that there is plausibility in the request after the journalist’s statement as political amnesty and the confirmation of execution by.
According to Judge Anderson Santos da Silva, the Brazilian government is responsible for violating rights and guarantees in the Herzog case, already. For him, the age of Clarice and the diagnosis of advanced Alzheimer’s disease are also relevant factors to check the injunction.
The determination should also have its merit evaluated by the TRF-1 (Federal Regional Court of the First Region).
It was tortured and killed in a unit of the Army’s Doi-Codi. The military forged a version of suicide-and the photo created to simulate this version has become a symbol of the repression of the period. With the death of her husband, Clarice began a movement to investigate the murder and punished those responsible.
In a statement, the Vladimir Herzog Institute, an entity that maintains the journalist’s memory, said he celebrated the decision, but stressed that there was a long way to the final decision, merit. He recalled the decision of the Inter -American Court and said the decision “emphasizes the guarantee of reparation to Herzog’s family.”
“The Vladimir Herzog Institute and the Herzog family believe that the current moment presents us with a historical opportunity to definitely and fully fulfilled the determinations of the sentence, among them the public request for forgiveness by the Brazilian State, an integral part of the action of TRF-1, and thus guarantee the rights related to the transitional justice in Brazil “, concluded the note.
Last March, he unanimously approved the condition of amnesty politics, also persecuted by the afterwards, after starting a movement charging investigation and punishment of those responsible for the murder of her husband.
The Amnesty Declaration is an instrument of repair and preservation of memory. With him, the state calls for forgiveness to the victims of the crimes committed during the military regime.
In addition to the apology, an indemnity economic reparation was paid, in a single installment, corresponding to 390 minimum wages (respecting the legal ceiling of R $ 100 thousand). In October this year, the journalist’s death will turn 50.
