Filipe Martins’ prison is maintained by the STF after custody hearing

The preventive detention of former presidential advisor Filipe Martins was maintained this Friday afternoon after a custody hearing. Martins was arrested this Friday morning for failing to comply with the ban on using social media.

The custody hearing serves to analyze the way in which the arrest warrant was carried out, and not the facts that led to its decree. The procedure was conducted by Flávia Martins de Carvalho, assistant judge in the office of Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the Federal Supreme Court (STF).

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During the hearing, Martins stated that there was no abuse or irregularity on the part of the police officers who served the arrest warrant, and that is why the order was maintained. Later, however, the former advisor criticized the measure and stated that the detention would be illegal.

Alexandre de Moraes ordered preventive detention because he considered that Martins failed to comply with the ban on using social networks, after being found to have accessed his LinkedIn profile.

The former advisor’s defense acknowledged the access, but claimed that it was done by the lawyers themselves, and that there was no publication.

Filipe Martins had already been under house arrest since December 26, due to the risk of escape. Among the obligations imposed was “the prohibition on the use of own social networks or by third parties”.

Last month, he was sentenced by the STF to 21 years in prison for an attempted coup d’état. Martins has not yet started serving this sentence, however, because there are still pending appeals.