Robinho was taken into custody by Brazilian police after his conviction for rape in Italy was ratified by Brazilian authorities. He will spend nine years in prison, according to his sentence.
The former Manchester City, Real Madrid and the Milan star had avoided justice in Italy for several years after he was found guilty of rape for an incident in 2013 in Milan. He maintains his innocence, but the Italian courts found otherwise.
Brazil does not have an extradition policy, so he has been able to live in freedom until now, but on Wednesday the Supreme Court voted in favor of transferring his sentence to Brazil, where he is serving the his time
Newspaper based in Madrid Brand he mentioned the phrase “hell on earth” for the prison that Robin will be put in. The number of prisoners in the Brazilian system is believed to be over the capacity of the prisons, with sexual violence, drug gangs and poor hygiene rampant.
“Overcrowding is a major problem in Brazil's prisons and nowhere is it more serious than in Pernambuco… The state has locked up tens of thousands of people in wards designed for a third of that number, and has given and the keys to the prisoners who use violence and intimidation to manage the prison grounds as personal fiefdoms,” Maria Laura Canineu, Director of Human Rights Watch, commented earlier, describing the Federal Prison System.
