When Edson Teles was four years old, he was kidnapped from his home in the city of São Paulo, along with his older sister, Janaína de Almeida Teles. They were taken by soldiers to the Information Operations Detachment – Internal Defense Operations Center (DOI-CODI) – a centre for torture under Brazil’s brutal military dictatorship.
It was 1972 and their family had been targeted for being members of the Communist Party of Brazil and for their work in the clandestine anti-regime press. At DOI-CODI, Edson and Janaína were forced to watch their parents being tortured.
