Lula's defense team updates Moro's violations at the UN.

Lawyers for former President Lula, Cristiano Zanin Martins, Valeska Teixeira Martins, and British lawyer Geoffrey Robertson, have submitted a new document to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. They had already filed a petition with the UN High Commissioner in July of last year denouncing abuses by Judge Sergio Moro of the Lava Jato operation in Lula's case. This time, the defense intends to update the committee on the violations, citing facts such as the sentence in the triplex apartment case, which condemned the former president to nine and a half years in prison and which, according to the defense, "contains gross violations of human rights," and Moro's presence at the launch of the film about Lava Jato, which portrays Lula as guilty without a final verdict against him.

October 06, 2017, 22:33 PMUpdated June 26, 2018, 15:19 pm

Lawyers for former President Lula, Cristiano Zanin Martins, Valeska Teixeira Martins, and British lawyer Geoffrey Robertson, submitted a new document to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, to whom they had already filed a petition in July of last year, aiming to denounce the abuses of Judge Sergio Moro, of Lava Jato, in the case against Lula; this time, the defense intends to update the committee on the violations, with facts such as the sentence in the triplex case, which condemned the former president to 9 and a half years in prison, and which, according to the defense, "contains gross violations of human rights," and Moro's presence at the launch of the film about Lava Jato, which presents Lula as guilty without a definitive decision against him (Photo: Gisele Federicce).

247 - Lawyers Cristiano Zanin Martins, Valeska Teixeira Martins, and Australian-born British citizen Geoffrey Robertson submitted a new document to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.

The objective was to update the committee on the relevant violations that have occurred since the petition was submitted to the UN on July 28, 2016, and followed by a reply on May 22, 2017.

The new document was filed this Thursday, the 5th, in Geneva, Switzerland, and includes the sentence regarding the triplex apartment, which, according to the defense, "contains gross violations of human rights," in addition to statements given to the press by Judge Carlos Eduardo Thompson Flores Lenz, president of the Federal Regional Court of the 4th Region (TRF4), in Porto Alegre.

The document also reports other events that have occurred since the last demonstration, such as the presence of Judge Sérgio Moro at the launch of the film "Federal Police - The Law is for Everyone," about Lava Jato, which portrays the former president as guilty without any definitive ruling against him.

"The sentence handed down by Moro as a first-instance judge is equivalent to a prophecy being fulfilled by Moro as the investigating judge," warns lawyer Valeska Teixeira Martins. "We have attached the sentence to update these violations that have occurred since May 2017, when we filed the rebuttal," she states.

According to Geoffrey Robertson, Lula should have been judged by an impartial judge, as stipulated in article 14(1) of the UN Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. "Lula was judged and convicted by a biased judge, which is inconceivable," says Robertson, a world reference in the field of human rights.