Lawsuit against Regina Duarte for advocating torture is dismissed.
A ruling by the 23rd Federal Court of Rio de Janeiro suspended part of the lawsuit seeking R$70 in damages for moral harm from actress and former Secretary of Culture Regina Duarte for allegedly advocating torture.
Sputnik - The 23rd Federal Court of Rio de Janeiro decided to suspend part of the lawsuit that sought R$ 70 in damages for moral harm from Regina Duarte for allegedly advocating torture.
The lawsuit was filed by Lygia Jobim after an interview given by Duarte, then Secretary of Culture in the government of Jair Bolsonaro (no party affiliation), to CNN Brasil. During the interview, Duarte sang a song from the dictatorial regime and said that "humanity never stops dying. If you say 'life,' on the other side there's 'death.' There has always been torture."
Lygia Jobim is the daughter of diplomat José Pinheiro Jobim, who was kidnapped, tortured, and killed by officers of the dictatorship in 1979.
In her ruling, Judge Maria Amélia Almeida Senos de Carvalho argued that Duarte cannot be held personally liable for his comments. However, the Federal Government is still a defendant in the case.
The National Truth Commission concluded that 434 people were killed by the military dictatorship—and the bodies of 210 of these victims were never found. The CNV also concluded that the Brazilian state was responsible, through action or omission, for the deaths of 8.350 indigenous people—and estimates that this number "must be exponentially higher."