Lula seeks clemency for Brazilian in RI

Wed, 23 Mar 2005 | Source: AFP

BRAZIL: Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Monday urged his Indonesian counterpart to grant clemency to a Brazilian man sentenced to death in Indonesia for drug smuggling.

Lula's spokesman, Andre Singer, told reporters that Lula sent a message to Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono conceding that Marco Archer Cardoso Moreira's crime was serious but that Brazilian law does not include the death penalty.

In his message Lula says executing Moreira, a hang-gliding instructor from Rio de Janeiro, would "cause enormous popular shock," Singer said.

An Indonesian court last year found Moreira guilty of smuggling 13.4 kilograms of cocaine in a hang-glider frame. --AFP

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