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Community => Politics and Government => Topic started by: dpareja on November 08, 2019, 09:49:42 pm
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/brazil-judge-orders-release-lula-1.5353647
The world's most high-profile political prisoner, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, former President of Brazil, has been freed from jail pending his appeals of his convictions for corruption and money laundering related to a property sale.
The Supreme Federal Court ruled that anyone convicted of a crime could not be imprisoned until all appeals had been exhausted.
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Lula appears to me as the classic example of how 'corruption' purges are often used to attack your political enemies. Trump and Rudy were simply trying to take a leaf out of the Bolsonaro play book.
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This is just the beginning
https://jacobinmag.com/2019/11/lula-livre-brazil-free-prison-lula-da-silva-supreme-court
The movement has to keep up the pressure because he was wrongly detained for political reasons in order to ensure a fascist coup d'etat via the election.