___Associated Press writer Stan Lehman reported this story in Sao Paulo and AP writer Mauricio Savarese reported from Rio de Janeiro. Maristella Basso, a professor of international law at the University of Sao Paulo, said the initiative was unlikely to bear fruit. Hours after Silva was appointed chief of staff for his hand-picked successor as president, Dilma Rousseff, Moro released recorded conversations of the former president with family members, his lawyer and other politicians, including Rousseff. Besides Silva's attorneys, the petition filed in Geneva was also signed by British lawyer Geoffrey Robertson, a human rights specialist. The part containing conversations with Rousseff has been invalidated as evidence by Brazil's top court.

Source: New Zealand Herald July 28, 2016 22:14 UTC