123. Under that law, on February 28, 1996 Clarice Herzog filed a request with the CEMDP to obtain an acknowledgement of the fact that Vladimir Herzog had been tortured to death on Army premises; she also sought compensation pursuant to Article 11 of that Law. 235 Her request was unanimously approved in April 1996.236 On July 17, 1997, the President of the Republic confirmed the decision and Clarice Herzog was paid damages of R$ 100,000.00 reais.237 124. In 2007, the Secretariat of Human Rights of the Office of the President of the Republic published the report titled “Direito à Memória e à Verdade: Comissão Especial sobre Mortos e Desaparecidos Políticos” [Right to Memory and to the Truth: Special Commission on Political Deaths and Disappearances] which contained the CEMDP’s findings. 238 The report states that “on October 25, 1975, journalist Vladimir Herzog was tortured to death at the DOI-CODI of São Paul[o].”239 v. Actions of the Office of the Federal Public Prosecutor (Case No. 2008.61.81.0134342)240 125. Given the facts set forth and conclusions reached in the report of the “Special Commission on Political Deaths and Disappearances” (CEMDP), on November 19, 2007, attorney and constitutional lawyer Fábio Konder Comparato filed a request [“Representação241”] with the Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office242 asking that the necessary measures be taken to investigate “[t]he abuses and criminal acts against the regime’s political opponents”243 committed by “public agents from the various units of the federation.” 244 Members in the Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office examined the request and, because they did not have authority to act in criminal matters, requested in March 2008 that the investigation be referred to one of the Members of the Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office with authority in criminal matters, so that it might determine what the necessary measures would be.245 The foregoing notwithstanding, they sent a memorandum to the Attorney General to the following effect: […] the crimes of homicide, battery (torture) and kidnapping (forced disappearance) that the repressive organs committed against political dissidents in the 1964-1985 period under Brazil’s military dictatorship may be classified as crimes against humanity, based on the parameters established by the United Nations, the International Court of Justice and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.. Such crimes still need to be investigated and prosecuted by authorities with the Brazilian Public Prosecutor’s Office and presented to the Judicial Branch, since they are no longer subject to the statute of limitations and do not qualify for amnesty. Application of the Amnesty Law in the case of the State’s agents of repression and the failure to investigate and prosecute the authors of these crimes is a violation of the obligations Brazil undertook vis-à-vis the international 235 Texto original: “[p]ara fins de pagamento de indenização prevista no art. 11 da mesma Lei No. 9.140/95”. Solicitud de Clarice Herzog ante la Comissão Especial sobre Mortos e Desaparecidos Políticos, fls. 6, del 28 de febrero de 1996. 236 Brasil. Presidência da República. Secretaria Especial dos Direitos Humanos. Direito à Memória e à Verdade: Comissão Especial sobre Mortos e Desaparecidos Políticos. Brasília, Secretaria Especial dos Direitos Humanos, fls. 408, 2007. 237 Comunicación del Estado brasileño de agosto de 2015, párr. 10. 238Brasil. Presidência da República. Secretaria Especial dos Direitos Humanos. Direito à Memória e à Verdade: Comissão Especial sobre Mortos e Desaparecidos Políticos. Brasília, Secretaria Especial dos Direitos Humanos, 2007. 239 Texto original: “Em 25 de outubro de 1975, o jornalista Vladimir Herzog foi assassinado sob torturas no DOI-CODI de São Paul[o]”. Brasil. Presidência da República. Secretaria Especial dos Direitos Humanos. Direito à Memória e à Verdade: Comissão Especial sobre Mortos e Desaparecidos Políticos. Brasília, Secretaria Especial dos Direitos Humanos, fls. 27, 2007. 240 El procedimiento fue inicialmente autuado en el Ministerio Público Federal como “Peças de Informação” No. 1.34.001.001574/2008-17. 241 Representação: significa dirigirse, por escrito, al Ministério Público (Procurador de Justicia, en los estados; Procurador de la Republica, en el ámbito del Ministerio Público Federal), con el objeto de denunciar hechos relacionados con el alcance de las actividades del Ministerio Publico, y solicitar el inicio de una investigación. 242 Representação de Fabio Konder Comparato a la Procuraduría de la Republica en São Paulo, de fecha 19 de noviembre de 2007. 243 Texto original: “[a]busos e atos criminosos contra opositores políticos ao regim[e]”. Proceso No. 2008.61.81.013434-2 Justiça 244 Proceso No. 2008.61.81.013434-2 Justiça Federal - São Paulo, Volume 7, fls. 1279, Oficio No GABPR12-EAGF/SP000109/2008, del 5 de marzo de 2008. Federal - São Paulo, Volume 7, fls. 1279, Oficio No GABPR12-EAGF/SP-000109/2008, del 5 de marzo de 2008. 245Es pertinente mencionar que dicha solicitud fue basada en extenso dictamen jurídico de fecha 3 de diciembre de 2007, del Procurador Regional de la Republica Marlon Alberto Weichert. 30