Overview
- Zambelli’s lawyer and Senator Magno Malta say she was attacked by fellow inmates at Rome’s Rebibbia women’s prison on at least two occasions before September, though no formal complaint was filed with Italian authorities.
- Her defense says prison officials initially declined to act, citing high turnover in the cell, and later approved a transfer to a different cell on an upper floor after formal requests.
- The former deputy has been held in Rome since late July while an Italian court weighs Brazil’s extradition request, for which the public prosecutor has issued a favorable opinion.
- After the Chamber of Deputies fell short of the votes to strip her seat, the STF’s First Panel unanimously nullified that outcome and ordered the immediate loss of mandate, and she formally resigned on December 14 as her substitute Adilson Barroso took office.
- She was sentenced by the STF in May to 10 years in prison, loss of mandate and a fine for invading the CNJ systems, and the São Paulo regional electoral court had separately imposed an eight‑year ineligibility over abuse of power and misuse of media.