The president of the Federal Regional Court (TRF-4), Thompson Flores, has decided to keep Lula in prison.
In an apparent turn in events judge Thompson Flores rules that the case returns to judge Gebran and that therefore its decision to maintain Lula in prison remains valid
Lula will remain in jail. That's the final decision from the Regional Court's President, judge Thomson Flores. That's a wrap (for now). #Lula https://t.co/6upO9q95LV
— Mia Alberti (@mialberti) July 8, 2018
Appeal judge Rogerio Favreto of the Federal Regional Court of the 4th Region based in Porto Alegre, reaffirmed Sunday afternoon his decision to grant freedom to former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, as two judges attempted to question his authority, further giving the police a deadline of one hour to release the former socialist president.
Lula has been imprisoned since April 7 in Curitiba over alleged charges of corruption that investigators failed to provide evidence for.
Among the flurry of reactions commenting on this momentous time in Brazil’s history is a tweet by the head of Brazil’s Supreme court Carmen Lucia who came out in support of releasing Lula.
#Update #Lula | President of the Supreme Court, Carmen Lúcia, affirms that "the protocols must be respected and without breaking the hierarchy". Lula could be free at any moment.
▶️ https://t.co/0QuHBfAPYm
via @AndreteleSUR #LulaLibre #FreeLula https://t.co/tomz5nyLoD— teleSUR English (@telesurenglish) July 8, 2018
UPDATE: First judge to order Lula's release, Favretto, reiterates his decision (again) and further orders judge Moro to be arrested (!) for not following his judicial order!
Things are heating up. #Lula https://t.co/ZAcVY0KFiU
— Mia Alberti (@mialberti) July 8, 2018
According to Lula’s legal team, Moro and the federal police acted “as a monolithic block against Lula’s freedom, showing that there is no separation between the performance of the magistrate and the prosecutor.”
He was granted immediate release after the lawmakers Wadih Damous, Paulo Pimenta and Paulo Teixeira submitted a “Habeas Corpus” request to Favreto.
“At the current stage, the illegal and unconstitutional provisional execution of the sentence imposed on the former president Lula can’t stop his political rights neither restrict the right to acts related to his condition as a pre-candidate to president of the republic,” said Favreto, who was a member of the Workers’ Party for 19 years.
So this is how it goes:
-Both judges (Favretto & Gebran) have the SAME authority.
-It's Sunday & Favretto is the appointed judge so he WOULD've the power.
-But Gebran is the judge in charge of #Lula's case so he kinda ALSO has the power.Both are claiming their rightly authority
— Mia Alberti (@mialberti) July 8, 2018
Lula’s Workers’ Party (PT) issued a statement shortly after the decision. “Through the decision of the Favreto, the judicial system, which was so often manipulated to persecute Lula and deprive him of freedom, now recognizes that he has the right to defend himself in freedom in the higher instances, as the Constitution guarantees to everyone,” the PT said in a press release Sunday afternoon.
“And it decides, mainly, that society has the right to know, through the voice of Lula himself, his proposals to get Brazil out of this immense crisis, to resume the path of democracy, social justice and the construction of the equality.”
#LulaLivre | Juez de primera instancia Sergio Moro publica decisión revocando liberación del expresidente Lula. Abogados denuncian desobediencia, ya que la decisión fue de un juez superior a Moro. pic.twitter.com/dx7B9heVST
— André Vieira (@AndreteleSUR) July 8, 2018
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