Brazil's Supreme Court on Wednesday suspended a lower court decision to tra...
FILE PHOTO: Brazil's former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva arrives at the headquarters where he is serving a prison sentence, after attending the funeral of his 7-year-old grandson, in Curitiba, Brazil March 2, 2019. REUTERS/Rodolfo Buhrer/File Photo
Lula, as the leftist leader is known, was convicted in 2017 of taking a bribe from an engineering firm in return for help landing contracts with state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA. The former president is being held in a cell within the federal police headquarters in Curitiba. However, police complained in a motion seen by Reuters that overseeing Lula’s imprisonment was diverting significant time and resources, as well as inconveniencing city residents.
Ten of the 11 justices on the Supreme Court, however, overruled the transfer and decided Lula should stay in Curitiba until they can judge other pending appeals filed by his lawyers seeking his release.
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