Former South African President Jacob Zuma yesterday asked the courts to reconsider the 15-month prison sentence imposed this week by the Constitutional Court for failing to comply with court summons which forced him to testify in investigations. The legal team of the former Head of State has filed an application with the Constitutional Court of South Africa in which it asks for the ending of the sentence that requires him to turn himself in to the police before next Sunday.” my unstable health and my life are being threatened by this detention order”, refers the document sent by Zuma to the Constitutional Court, according to a text collected by the news portal News24, quoted by Notícias ao Minuto.This recent attempt Zuma’s decision to avoid arrest contrasts with the defiant stance he has taken in recent months against the South African judiciary. If Jacob Zuma doesn’t surrender to authorities by Sunday , the police were summoned to arrest him, having three days to do so and to take him to a prison where he will serve the 15 months of effective imprisonment. Remember that the South African Constitutional Court sentenced, on Tuesday, Jacob Zuma, 79 years old, to 15 months in prison for repeatedly refusing to comply with the summons that required him to testify in investigations of acts of corruption that involve him.Source:O País
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