The minister Alexandre de Moraesdo STF (Supreme Federal Court)awaiting an opinion from the PGR (Attorney General’s Office) on requests from the former president’s defense Jair Bolsonaro (PL) so that he has a Smart TVparticipate in the penalty redemption program for reading e receive religious assistance in prison.
Last Friday (9), .
The PGR must also issue an opinion on the senator’s request Damares Alves (Republicanos-DF), who is president of the Senate Human Rights Commission, to inspect the former president’s cell.
On Thursday (8), Bolsonaro’s lawyers asked for Bolsonaro’s inclusion in the . The mechanism allows four days of sentence to be reduced for each work read.
Subsequently, at the end of each reading, Bolsonaro needs to write a report on the work, which is approved by a prison unit committee. He can read up to 12 books per year through the program, allowing him to redeem 48 days of his sentence each year.
In a second request, .
According to the defense, “access to media, especially journalistic and informative programming, represents a legitimate instrument for preserving the custodian’s bond with the country’s social, political and institutional reality.”
It is also argued that the former president already received weekly religious assistance during house arrest, and “it became unfeasible to continue this religious assistance, due to the restrictions specific to the custody regime.”
