Former Brazilian president receives compensation for torture
Former Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff is to receive compensation for her torture by the military during the country's dictatorship.
As a politically persecuted individual, a commission of the South American country's Ministry of Human Rights awarded the former head of state, who was in power from 2011-16, compensation of 100,000 reais ($17,720), the TV channel TV Globo reported.
Rousseff was arrested in 1970 at the age of 22 for her resistance to the military junta and was tortured multiple times during her approximately three-year imprisonment.
The military dictatorship in Brazil lasted from 1964 to 1985. According to the report by the national truth commission, more than 400 people were murdered and thousands tortured during the dictatorship.
Rousseff has previously received compensation totalling 72,000 reais from the states of Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Rio Grande do Sul, where she was tortured during her imprisonment. She donated the payments to social organizations.
Rousseff is currently working as the president of the New Development Bank (NDB) of the BRICS countries in Shanghai.
The BRICS countries were originally Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, but they have expanded to include Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Iran and the United Arab Emirates.
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