Christian council will return torture documents to Brazil

Geneva, June 13 (ENInews)--On 14 June, three boxes containing records of
brutal torture and repression suffered under two decades of Brazilian
military rule will be returned to the South American country from peaceful
Switzerland, where the material has resided at the World Council of Churches
(WCC) archives. 

Religious and political leaders, including WCC general secretary the Rev.
Olav Fyske Tveit and Brazilian Senator Pedro Taques, will hand over the
documents in a ceremony in Sao Paulo at the Public Prosecution Office. The
information was collected by dissident lawyers and church leaders from 1979 to
1985, surreptitiously copied and sent to the WCC. Brazil was under a
military dictatorship from 1964 to 1985.

In an interview at WCC's headquarters in Geneva on 10 June, Tveit said the
delivery of the material will add more documentation for people seeking
compensation for their sufferings. It also manifests, he said, the role of
the WCC, supported by denominations, in documentation of the abuses and
torture that happened under military rule.