Brazilian justice ordered the release of Agostina Páez, the 29-year-old Argentine lawyer who was accused of making racist gestures. This was confirmed by defender Sebastián Robles in dialogue with the Argentine News Agency. The young woman had been transferred to a police station in the city of Rio de Janeiro. In this way, the preventive detention requested by the Public Prosecutor's Office was revoked, and Páez will return to house arrest with an electronic ankle bracelet as part of the case that investigates her for the crime of racial insult, whose penalty contemplates between two to five years in prison, according to Brazilian laws. Through a video, released this Thursday, Páez considered that “all her rights are being violated,” since at all times she showed her willingness before the Brazilian authorities, but at the same time she warned that she is “dead scared.” “I need help. I hope everything gets clarified,” she added. Although the lawyer did not explicitly say so, her reaction is said to have been in response to a series of obscene jokes by a group of men who were in the bar.
