Italy Seeks Prison Assurances as Brazil’s House Panel Weighs Zambelli’s Ouster

Overview

• An Italian appeals court suspended a decision on Carla Zambelli’s extradition and asked Justice Alexandre de Moraes for written details on Brazil’s prisons before a hearing set for December 18.
• The queries sent via Brazil’s DRCI ask where she would be held, how convicted and pretrial inmates are separated, conditions in women’s facilities, inmate-on-inmate violence, and the capacity of prison police to keep order.
• The Italian public prosecutor has issued a favorable opinion for extradition and rejected claims of political persecution, though judges are awaiting Brazil’s assurances.
• Reports differ on the deadline for Moraes’s replies, with accounts citing December 14 or 16, which will shape the timing of the court’s December 18 session.
• In Brasília, the Chamber’s CCJ advanced the cassation case as relator Diego Garcia reaffirmed a vote to preserve Zambelli’s mandate, setting up a plenary decision despite two STF convictions that included loss of office.