(1 Apr 2025)
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Rio de Janeiro – 01 April 2025
1. Crowd in front of former building of the extinct Department of Political and Social Order
2. Building’s facade with inscription (Portuguese) “Central Police”
3. Scuffle between activists and a small group that was allegedly provoking the crowd
4. Crowd with flags and banners against the military dictatorship yelling UPSOUND (Portuguese) “For life, for peace, torture never again”
5. A cloth flag reproducing a picture of former president Dilma Rousseff being interrogated during the military dictatorship
6. Activists holding a sign that reads (Portuguese) “No amnesty”
7. Crowd with flags and banners
8. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Luciana Boiteux, professor of Criminal Law at Rio de Janeiro Federal University:
"We still owe this debt to the families of those who died and disappeared during the dictatorship, and there has been no complete reparation. We have this debate about memory, and it’s important to deepen this reflection in society precisely to avoid what happened recently. Brazil needs to implement the truth, it also needs to condemn the coup plotters of January 8th.”
9. Activists holding pictures of political opponents that were murdered or disappeared during the regime
10. Pro-democracy stickers
11. Activist holding a placard that shows US President Donald Trump, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro with a text that reads (Portuguese) “No amnesty for genocidists and coup plotters”
12. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Luciano Tolla, lawyer and founder of the Brazilian Association of Jurists for Democracy:
“(To remember the military coup) is fundamental. This can’t be forgotten. We have victims still alive today and also torturers. These torturers have to be punished and this is being revisited by the judiciary.”
13. Activists holding banners against the military dictatorship
14. Various of activists walking through downtown Rio with flags and banners
STORYLINE:
Activists held a demonstration Tuesday in downtown Rio de Janeiro to remember the victims of Brazil’s military government, marking the anniversary of the 1964 military coup.
The group gathered in front of a former building of the extinct Department of Political and Social Order, known as DOPS, used for incarceration and torture during that period.
Many held pictures of political opponents that were murdered or disappeared during the regime.
But there were also flags and stickers highlighting the 2022 Jan. 8 events, when supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro invaded the capital building.
Activists shouted “no amnesty” for the former president.
In March, a panel of Brazil Supreme Court justices unanimously ruled that Bolsonaro and seven of his associates will stand trial on five counts, including attempting to stage a coup after the far-right leader lost the 2022 election.
"We have this debate about memory, and it’s important to deepen this reflection in society precisely to avoid what happened recently. Brazil needs to implement the truth, it also needs to condemn the coup plotters of January 8th,” said Luciana Boiteux, a professor of Criminal Law at Rio’s Federal University.
In 1964, a coup overthrew President João Goulart by members of the Brazilian Armed Forces, launching a 21-year dictatorship that saw hundreds of people killed and thousands tortured.
AP Video shot by Lucas Dumphreys
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