Unofficial summary in English. The judgment is published in Portuguese only, and only the Portuguese text is authentic.
A defendant in pre-trial detention appealed against a decision of the President of the Benguela Court of Appeal rejecting his habeas corpus application, invoking the unlawfulness of his deprivation of liberty. Having established that the appellant had since been released and his pre-trial detention lifted, the Court terminated the proceedings as moot, since the subject matter of the application no longer existed.
Decision
Proceedings terminated as moot
Type of proceedings
Extraordinary appeal on grounds of unconstitutionality (habeas corpus) (Recurso Extraordinário de Inconstitucionalidade (Habeas Corpus))
Full text
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