Human rights body condemns Brazil for journalist's death
Source: Associated Press
Updated 12:54 pm CDT, Friday, July 6, 2018
SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil says condemnation from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights for the torture and death of well-known journalist Vladimir Herzog during the country's military dictatorship is "just."
Foreign Minister Aloysio Nunes Ferreira says Friday that respect for the commission's decision earlier in the week is "unquestionable."
In its ruling, the commission said Brazil had been negligent in investigating, prosecuting and punishing those guilty for Herzog's death.
Herzog was arrested and murdered in 1975 while in an army jail in the city of Sao Paulo.
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