An Argentine judge on Tuesday approved a request from former President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner to serve out her six-year prison sentence for corruption at home. Kirchner, 72, a polarizing leftist figure who was president from 2007 to 2015,

The Supreme Court upheld a corruption conviction that would bar one of Argentina’s top political figures from office. Fernández de Kirchner rejected the ruling.

Protesters have denounced the leader’s incarceration and ban from public office as an act of political retribution.