119. Many victims were executed in clandestine centers used by DOI-CODI/SP agents to torture and murder people and to hide the corpses. 63 The Itapevi house, located in the metropolitan area of São Paulo, has been named as a clandestine center used by the Second Army’s DOI-CODI and by the CIE to carry out acts of torture and to execute those imprisoned under Operation Radar (especially members of the PCB). 64 120. In this way, members of the PCB were gradually detained, tortured and executed by Operation Radar between 1974 and 1976. 65 According to the Brazilian Federal Public Prosecution Service, evidence obtained from 1970 to 1975 reveals the systematic practice of executions and disappearances of the opposition, with a list of 281 deaths or disappearances of opponents, which represents 75% of all the deaths and disappearances throughout the time of the dictatorship in Brazil. 66 D. The events of October 25, 1975 121. On the evening of October 24, 1975, two DOI/CODI agents arrived at the offices of TV Cultura where Vladimir Herzog was working. Mr. Herzog was asked to accompany them to the DOI/CODI in order to give a statement. After the director of the television channel intervened, the security forces agreed to summon Mr. Herzog so that he could make a “voluntary” statement the following morning. 67 122. Vladimir Herzog went to the offices of the DOI/CODI, voluntarily, on the morning of Saturday, October 25. 68 On arriving, he was deprived of his liberty, interrogated and tortured. The journalist, Rodolfo Osvaldo Konder, who was detained in the DOI/CODI at the time, has indicated that: On Saturday morning, I saw that Vladimir Herzog had arrived […]. George Duque Estrada, from the “Estado de São Paulo” was next to me and I commented to him that Vladimir Herzog was there. […] Some time later, Vladimir was taken from the room. We continued to be seated on a bench until one of the interrogators came and took me and […] Duque Estrada to an interrogation room […]. Vladimir was sitting on a chair with a hood over his head. When we entered the room, the interrogator ordered us to take off our hoods, and that’s why we saw that it was Vladimir and we also saw the interrogator. […] Both Duque Estrada and I advised Vladimir to say what he knew. […] Vladimir said that he knew nothing and the two of us were taken from the room back to the wooden bench where we were seated previously, in the next room. From there we could hear clearly the shouts, first of the interrogator and then of Vladimir, and we also heard when the interrogator asked that someone pass him the “pimentinha” 69 and requested the help of a team of torturers. Someone turned the radio on and Vladimir’s cries were nearly drowned out by the sound of the radio […]. At that moment, Vladimir was being tortured and cried out. After a certain time, the sound of Vladimir’s voice changed as if they were putting something in his mouth […], as if they had put a gag 63 Report of the National Truth Commission (evidence file, folio 3251). 64 Report of the National Truth Commission (evidence file, folios 3141 and 3250). 65 Report of the National Truth Commission (evidence file, folio 3123). Federal Public Prosecution Service, Crimes da Ditadura Militar, pp. 76 and 77 (evidence file, folios 14273 and 14274). 66 67 Direito à Memória e à Verdade: Special Commission on Political Deaths and Disappearances (evidence file, folio 406); Markun, Paulo. Meu querido Vlado. A história de Vladimir Herzog e do sonho de uma geração, pp. 132 and 133 (evidence file, folio 8793). 68 Direito à Memória e à Verdade: Special Commission on Political Deaths and Disappearances (evidence file, folio 406); Report of the National Truth Commission (evidence file, folio 3299); Markun, Paulo. Meu querido Vlado. A história de Vladimir Herzog e do sonho de uma geração, p. 133 (evidence file, folio 8793). 69 The “pimentinha” was an electric shock device, commonly known as an “electric prod” in Latin America. 26