of the Army must promote the website where the judgment and its summary are located by
means of a weekly post for one year.
384. The State must advise this Court immediately when it has made each of the
publications ordered in subparagraphs (a) and (b) of paragaph 383, irrespective of the oneyear time frame for presenting its first report required in the tenth operative paragraph of this
judgment. In addition, in the report required in the thirteenth operative paragraph, the State
must present evidence of all the weekly posts on social networks ordered in subparagraph (c)
of paragraph 383 of this judgment.
E.
Other measures of reparation requested by the representatives
385. The representatives asked the Court to require the State: (i) to reinforce the
measures of protection for individuals in the custody of the State; to ensure the effective
implementation of the National Mechanism for Prevention of Torture, and to ensure the
transparency and independence of the National Committee to Prevent and Combat Torture;
(ii) to ensure the autonomy of forensic experts and to prepare a national protocol of due
diligence to combat torture; (iii) to grant land in São Paulo to build a museum; (iv) to
strengthen the Program for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders so that it becomes an
effective public policy to protect human rights defenders and also communicators; (v) to
ensure that all State institutions and authorities are obliged to cooperate by supplying
information and full access to all the files and records that may contain information on crimes,
the individuals involved and the victims, and that it open investigative and administrative
proceedings that lead to the recovery of documentation that is missing or has been destroyed,
and determine the guilty parties.
386. The State argued that: (i) crimes of torture were not the purpose of this case, and
described the legal framework, and current public policies and actions to prevent and combat
torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment in Brazil; (ii) the
request was not legally admissible because the Federal Government could not oblige the
federated states to amend their laws. It also asserted that initiatives had already been
implemented to create of an autonomous career in the federated states; (iii) it had
implemented memory and truth policies; (iv) the Program for the Protection of Human Rights
Defenders had its own methodology and criteria and also included cases of communicators; it
also asserted that the request to strengthen the Program was very general and would not
permit compliance, because the Program was very effective now, and (v) the allegations
relating to denial of access to and reconstruction of documents were very general.
387. In this regard, the Court considers that the National Mechanism for the Prevention of
Torture has already been implemented and appreciates the initiatives taken by Brazil to
preserve the right of Vladimir Herzog to be remembered. Consequently, it finds that it is not
appropriate to issue additional measures of reparation in this regard. Also, the autonomy of
forensic experts and the preparation or implementation of a national protocol of due diligence
to combat torture has not been part of the subject matter of this case; thus, the Court
considers this request inadmissible. Regarding the other measures of reparation requested,
the Court considers that they were not the subject of this case and, accordingly, finds those
requests inadmissible.
F.
Compensation
i)
Pecuniary damage
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