Moraes authorizes Paulo Sérgio Nogueira to attend college to reduce his sentence

The Minister of the Federal Supreme Court (STF) Alexandre de Moraes authorized this Wednesday, 7th, that the former Minister of Defense Paulo Sérgio Nogueira enroll in a higher education course while serving a 19-year prison sentence for an attempted coup d’état. The decision allows Nogueira to study Hospital Administration in distance learning (EAD).

In the order, Moraes cites article 126 of the Criminal Execution Law, which provides for the possibility of remission of the sentence through study. Redemption is a mechanism that authorizes the reduction of part of the prison time upon proof of attendance and achievement in educational activities by convicts in a closed or semi-open regime.

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The minister states that the authorization is conditional on compliance with the rules of the Planalto Military Command, in the Federal District, where the former minister has been serving his sentence since November.

Army General, Paulo Sérgio Nogueira was Minister of Defense in the Jair Bolsonaro government and convicted in the criminal action investigating the attempted coup d’état after the 2022 elections.