“Moro,
Thompson, Gebran and the delegates on duty at the Federal Police in
Curitiba are all accomplices in the same violence against the rights
of Lula," PT's Gleisi Hoffmann.
“It's
difficult to point out who acted in the most shameful way” said
the president of the Workers' Party (PT), Senator Gleisi Hoffmann,
regarding the weekend legal events that kept former President Luiz
Inacio Lula da Silva in prison despite a release order. “Why
don't they immediately arrest the Brazilian people that want Lula
free and Lula president?” Hoffmann rhetorically asked, adding
that she is “sad that the country has to be ashamed of its
judges.”
Lula da
Silva remains in prison after a decision by an appeal judge to
immediately release him was blatantly rejected by unauthorized
judges, starting what some have dubbed a lawfare.
“Moro,
Thompson, Gebran and the delegates on duty at the Federal Police in
Curitiba are all accomplices in the same violence against the rights
of Lula, against democracy and against the freedom of the people to
vote for who best represents them in the October presidential
elections,” said Hoffmann.
Appeal
judge Rogerio Favreto of the Federal Regional Court of the 4th Region
(TRF-4) based in Porto Alegre, ordered Lula's release on Sunday,
answering to a habeas corpus request by three PT lawmakers. Despite
being on Vacation in Portugal with his family, the order was rejected
by Judge Serio Moro, who presided over a corruption case against
former President Lula da Silva, arguing Favreto lacks the authority
to release him.
The
events turned into a “lawfare,” with Favreto reaffirming the
release order and giving the police a one hour ultimatum and Judge
Gebran Neto, in charge of Lula's case at the regional federal court,
stepping in to keep him in jail.
At the
end, Judge Thompson Flores, president of the TRF-4, ruled that the
case must return to judge Gebran, keeping Lula in prison.
“They're
all accomplices in an act of disobedience to a judicial order,
followed by an arbitrary decision of judge Gebran, without any legal
or procedural basis,” said Gleisi in a statement.
The PT
held a party meeting in San Pablo, where members decided to take
legal actions against judge Sergio Moro and the trail court that
rejected Lula's release order despite coming from a higher tribunal.
Paulo
Teixeira, one of the lawmakers responsible for the habeas corpus in
favor of Lula, accused Moro of “violating the constitution”
by preventing Lula's release.
The
request is based on the right of the pre-candidate to attend campaign
acts and debates. Lula is the front-runner for the presidential
elections in all opinion polls, with 33 percent of the vote intention
according to a poll by Ibope, published in June. The runner-up, the
63-year-old retired army captain Jair Bolsonaro, sits at 15 percent.
“The
detained have same political rights as any other common citizen,”
said the lawmaker Waldih Damous, who also took part in the habeas
corpus request, adding that obstructing the release order coming from
a higher legal stance could even lead to prison for Moro.
Lula's
candidacy will be formalized in a campaign act on August 15, despite
being held prisoner in the police headquarters at Curitiba.
The head
of Lula's legal team, Cristiano Zanin Martins, and lawyer Geoffrey
Robertson will include a report on Sunday's event in the complaints
filed at the U.N. Human Rights Council.
According
to journalist Marcelo Auler, people who got access to Lula's prison
cell on Sunday said the former president was optimistic about the
turn of the events. “It was like a pot of gold for PT's
campaign,” he said.
Lula has
been imprisoned since April 7 in Curitiba over alleged charges of
corruption that investigators failed to provide evidence for.
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