Overview

• At a ceremony in USP’s Law School in São Paulo, officials delivered 102 corrected certificates to relatives of people killed or disappeared under the 1964–1985 regime.
• Each document now states the cause as a non‑natural, violent death caused by the Brazilian state, replacing misleading records from the dictatorship period.
• The roll includes figures such as Vladimir Herzog, Rubens Paiva, Alexandre Vannucchi Leme, Manoel Fiel Filho, Paulo Stuart Wright and Virgílio Gomes da Silva.
• The effort is led by the reactivated CEMDP with support from the National Council of Justice under Resolution No. 601/2024, following an August delivery of 63 documents with more cases pending.
• Families welcomed the recognition but pressed for the identification and return of remains and for criminal accountability, noting cases like Virgílio Gomes da Silva whose body has not been found.