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Brazil: Lula Begins Serving Jail Sentence, After 2-Day Standoff

HeadlineApr 09, 2018

In Brazil, former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has turned himself in to police and has begun serving a 12-year prison sentence for a highly controversial corruption conviction. His surrender came after a two-day standoff, during which he spent the night in São Paulo’s steelworkers’ union building to avoid his incarceration. Lula’s jailing comes after the Supreme Court rejected Lula’s bid to stay out of jail while he appealed his conviction, effectively removing him from Brazil’s presidential election later this year, where he was the front-runner. We’ll go to Brazil for more on Lula’s jailing later in the broadcast. We’ll speak with The Intercept’s co-founder Glenn Greenwald.

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