President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil issued a presidential pardon late Thursday for Congressman Daniel Silveira, who the Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF), the nation’s top court, had sentenced to eight years in prison for criticizing the court in a YouTube video.
Brazilian Congressman Daniel Silveira slept in his office on Wednesday night in defiance of a Supreme Tribunal Federal (STF) order that he wear an ankle monitor. Silveira was arrested last year for making a YouTube video criticizing the STF; the ankle monitor was a requirement of his tentative release.
A justice on Brazil’s Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF), the nation’s top court, overturned the multiple convictions on charges of corruption against former socialist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Monday.
Federal police arrested Daniel Silveira, a member of the lower house of the Congress of Brazil, late Tuesday for a YouTube video the nation’s Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF), the highest constitutional court, claimed included speech that constituted a “flagrant crime.”
