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Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva rejects bill passed by congress as he marks anniversary of 2023 Brasília riotsBrazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has vetoed a bill that would dramatically reduce the prison sentence of the country’s far-right forme…
Former Brazilian president underwent a phrenic nerve block while temporarily released from prison for surgeryJair Bolsonaro underwent a second “phrenic nerve block procedure” on Monday to treat persistent hiccups.The treatment went well and the former …
Lula acknowledges his decision to uphold 27-year sentence could be overridden by conservative lawmakers Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has promised to veto a bill passed by congress to reduce the prison term of Jair Bolsonaro, the forme…
Justice Alexandre de Moraes and his wife had been under Global Magnitsky sanctions after conviction of ex-presidentThe US Department of the Treasury has lifted sanctions imposed on the Brazilian supreme court justice who oversaw the conviction of the f…
Actor, who starred in The Passion of the Christ, will play the disgraced ex-Brazilian president in film written by his one-time secretary of cultureJair Bolsonaro, the former Brazilian president now in prison for plotting a coup, is getting the biopic …
I just want to put up top that this story is about what it sounds like, which is fantastical and like something out of a spy thriller, and yet there’s nothing we can put past this administration. But it’s also about how The New York Times missed — or …
Ex-president to start serving term in 12 sq metre bedroom in police base in Brasília after time for appeals elapsesBrazil’s former president, Jair Bolsonaro, has been ordered to start serving his 27-year sentence in a 12 sq metre bedroom in a police ba…
Former Brazilian far-right president says he took a soldering iron to electronic tag as he hallucinated it was buggedBrazil’s former far-right president Jair Bolsonaro has claimed he took a soldering iron to his electronic ankle monitor after suffering…
Ex-president says he used soldering iron on device and is now in custody because of fears he was going to abscondBrazil’s former far-right president Jair Bolsonaro has claimed he tried to damage his electronic ankle monitor “out of curiosity” after he …
The former president’s far-right supporters have discovered a new interest in prison conditions as incarceration loomsHe fought the law and the law won.Two months after receiving a 27-year sentence for trying to “annihilate” Brazil’s democratic institu…