BRASILIA - Brazil’s Supreme Court decided on Thursday to end the mandatory imprisonment of convicted criminals after they lose their first appeal, a politically charged ruling that may lead to the release of former leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
By a 6-5 vote, the court overturned a three-year-old rule that contributed to the success of Brazil’s biggest corruption investigation, the so-called Car Wash operation that put dozens of company executives and politicians in jail for bribes and kickbacks. Lula’s lawyers said they would seek his immediate release by the lower court that convicted him. He was jailed in 2018 for eight years and 10 months after he was found guilty of taking bribes from engineering firms in return for government contracts.
If and when he is released, Lula would be free to engage in politics but would not be eligible under Brazil’s Clean Record law to seek elected office for eight years after his first conviction in June 2017.
...that could free a thieve.
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Redo the stolen election, too. LulaLivre
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People who are appealing charges shouldn’t be imprisoned.
Could free the Lula, corrupt, a prissioner condened in all instancies at today. His not a innocent person. Our STF make a bad decision, against all popular opinion in Brazil. Only persons happy, are a PT partisans. The lefts in Brazil.
lula é ladrão, FechaSTF
Lula Libre!
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MSM delighted, shame on you!
Astaghfirullah 🤓 I thought for a while if protesters are carrying the posters written in Arabic Such is the precedence of protest in the world today
Early prison Reuters? A person be arrested after two judgments is early? And no, I'm not talking about Lula.
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I give up
LULA LIVREEEEEEEE LulaLivre
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