In the year of 50 years of the murder of journalist Vladimir Herzog by the military, the (Attorney General of the Union) signed an agreement to pay $ 3 million compensation to his family.
Payment includes compensation for moral damages to the family, as well as the journalist’s widow, publicist Clarice Herzog, 83.
A symbolic act will seal the agreement on June 26, at 11am, at the headquarters of the Vladimir Herzog Institute, in the west of the state capital. Union attorney general, Jorge Messias, must attend, as well as family members of Herzog. The date marks the day before which the journalist would turn 88.
“We built a response to the time of the provocation of journalist Herzog, who said that when we lose the ability to indignate ourselves with the atrocities practiced against others, we can no longer consider ourselves civilized human beings,” said Union Attorney General Clarice Calixto, who participated in the construction of the agreement using, as a legal basis, the law that regulates them.
In a statement, the Vladimir Herzog Institute celebrated the agreement. “This important historical advance happens within the 50th anniversary of this crime and the tireless struggle of Clarice Herzog for justice to Vlado,” says the text.
Vladimir Herzog was tortured and killed at the Doi-Codi headquarters in Sao Paulo in October 1975. The military reported that he had committed suicide and simulated the version in a photo that became a symbol of the repression of the military regime. With the death of her husband, Clarice Herzog began a movement to investigate the murder. In April last year, the Amnesty Commission acknowledged that she was also pursued by the Brazilian state due to her struggle for justice.
In March this year, Herzog was by the federal government.
The military regime (1964-1985) had one. The repression numbers are little accurate, as dictatorship never recognized these episodes. Military Justice Audits received 6,000 complaints of torture. Estimates made later point to 20,000 cases.
Prisoners reported having been hung in Arara sticks, subjected to electric shocks, strangulation, drowning attempts, palmatic blows, punches, kicks and other aggressions. In some cases, the torture session led to death.
In 2014, the National Truth Commission listed 191 dead and the disappearance of 210 people. Another 33 missing ones had their bodies located later, in a total of 434 people.
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