MPF visits Rio's former IML and discovers historical collection of the dictatorship

Engineer Gilberto Molina, 81, spent 34 years dedicated to locating, exhuming, identifying, and worthily burying the body of his brother, chemistry student Flávio Carvalho Molina. The 23-year-old member of the Popular Liberation Movement (Molipo) was killed under torture at the São Paulo DOI-Codi in November 1971. Gilberto discovered, back in 1981, that Flávio's remains were among the bones thrown in the clandestine Perus ditch, a hole created by…

An inspection carried out by the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office (MPF) on the decommissioned building of the former Medical-Legal Institute (IML) in Rio de Janeiro, in Lapa, the center of the capital, revealed a valuable documentary collection for the country's history. Among the materials found, there are records that may clarify the whereabouts of political disappeared persons and the human rights violations committed during the military di…

By Lucas Luciano — Tempo Real RJ The Federal Public Ministry (MPF), in partnership with other agencies, visited the old building of the Forensic Medical Institute (IML), in Lapa, central region of Rio, to assess the state of conservation of historical documents found on site, dated between the 1930s and 1960s, including materials from the dictatorship […]

The Rectorate of the National University of the Northeast (UNNE) has ordered the rectification and delivery, through a public ceremony, of the files of students and teachers who were victims of the last civic-military dictatorship. These files will bear the inscription "they had to interrupt their university careers or the practice of teaching due to illegal detentions committed by state terrorism."

The action targets Operation Cajueiro, which arrested and tortured more than 20 people in 1976

Almost 90 years after the beginning of the dictatorship, is it too late to repair the damage of the disappeared and the victims...