Defense of Leila Diniz’s daughter says Regina Duarte disrespected the decision: ‘She did not retract’

After Regina Duarte published a message with references to her judicial conviction in what would be a retraction, the defense of Janaína Diniz, daughter of actress Leila Diniz (1945-1972) and author of the compensation action, considered that the artist did not comply with the established and disrespected the judge’s decision with her post.

Regina was ordered to pay R$30,000 in compensation to the actress’s daughter and to retract the improper use of a photo included in a video she made in support of the military dictatorship. The video features Leila Diniz alongside actresses Eva Todor, Tônia Carrero, Eva Wilma, Odete Lara and Norma Bengell, who were protesting against — and not in favor of — the censorship imposed by AI-5.

According to lawyer Maria Isabel Tancredo, who represents the director and screenwriter in the lawsuit, Regina went against the decision and did not make any retraction in the post, but rather “an attempt to justify the unjustifiable.” She states that the lawsuit will continue until she complies with the court’s order.

“It is obvious that [Regina] does not comply with the obligation to make it clear to the actress’s followers that Leila Diniz never supported the Military Dictatorship and that the photograph used in the infringing content was, in fact, taken in a context of opposition to the regime and censorship”, says the lawyer about the position of the convicted actress.

“Remember that the video posted was a piece of material defending the coup, on the eve of January 8, with the voice of Jair Bolsonaro defending the coup and the corporate-military dictatorship, and the photo of Leila Diniz appeared exactly at the moment when it was said that women took to the streets to call for the coup. This is not an interpretative confusion, it was a piece of misinformation. Court decisions do not exist to be circumvented, but to be respected,” he concludes.

Diniz’s defense claims that the execution against Regina Duarte will continue until the obligation determined in the sentence is effectively fulfilled. In addition to the compensation, it was determined that Regina should delete the video, which is no longer online, and make a retraction, explaining that Leila Diniz never supported the Military Dictatorship and that the photograph used in the infringing content was, in fact, taken in a context of opposition to the regime and censorship.