Will Lula receive the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo or in Curitiba?

If former President Lula were to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, would his cell at the Federal Police headquarters in Curitiba be opened so he could go to Oslo, Norway?

If everything goes as planned, Lula should be received in the illuminated palace, with all its magnificence, in a ceremony of honor, for the tribute of the royal family, with microphones and cameras from all corners of the world focused on this unprecedented event.

If his freedom is denied by the Brazilian judiciary, would the Nobel Prize organizing committee come to Brazil, to Curitiba? Would Judge Carolina Lebos allow the prize to be delivered personally to the cell where he is imprisoned, convicted by then-judge Sérgio Moro based on a judicial farce, on accusations without evidence?

Whatever happens, Brazil runs the serious risk of being subjected to a situation of global embarrassment. The judiciary even more so.

The problem is that many judges lack a sense of moral responsibility and conscience. Many of them exhibit serious signs of social detachment. Such people feel no shame.

This has been demonstrated by the persistent denial of former President Lula's clear and certain rights, the cruel and inhumane treatment he has received, such as in the case of his brother Vavá's burial, and the refusal of appeals filed with the judiciary.

The support from heads of state, the international legal community, academics, intellectuals, artists, and highly respected figures worldwide, reaching almost half a million people, now with the awakening of part of the press, such as the French newspaper L'Humanité, makes the initiative of Nobel Prize winner Peres Esquivel a global movement that is putting the Brazilian judiciary in check.

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, accompanied by his Minister of Justice, Sérgio Moro, Jair Bolsonaro had a disastrous performance. The international press had the opportunity to see the Brazilian president up close and draw their own conclusions.

There is no longer any doubt, Lula is a political prisoner, a hostage of a fascist regime.

(*) The Nobel Peace Prize is the only one that is awarded in Oslo.