{"id":183093,"date":"2021-04-19T12:01:24","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T11:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=183093"},"modified":"2021-04-16T10:07:37","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T09:07:37","slug":"brazilian-supreme-court-confirms-annulment-of-all-charges-against-lula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/04\/brazilian-supreme-court-confirms-annulment-of-all-charges-against-lula\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazilian Supreme Court Confirms Annulment of All Charges against Lula"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_183094\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/lula-livre-brasil-brazil.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-183094\" class=\"size-full wp-image-183094\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/lula-livre-brasil-brazil.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/lula-livre-brasil-brazil.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/lula-livre-brasil-brazil-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-183094\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The plenary of the Supreme Court of Brazil formed a majority to overturn the judgments against Lula in the Lava Jato case in which it considered the 13th Court of the city of Curitiba incompetent. | Photo: Twitter\/@AndreteleSUR<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>15 Apr 2021<em> &#8211; Brazil&#8217;s Supreme Court today ratified the decision adopted by one of its judges, who annulled the sentences handed down against former president Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As a result of the Supreme Court&#8217;s affirmation of the annulment, Lula will recover all of his political rights and be able to run, if he and his party so choose, in the country&#8217;s 2021 upcoming presidential elections.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>RELATED: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telesurenglish.net\/news\/Brazil-Supreme-Court-Rules-Lula-Was-Treated-Unfairly-by-Moro-20210323-0013.html\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Brazil: Supreme Court Rules Lula Was Treated Unfairly by Moro<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Supreme Court decision was approved by eight votes to three and supported the position of Judge Edson Fachin, who on March 8 had annulled all of the sentences against Lula, which totaled almost 25 years of imprisonment, through a precautionary measure, due to a conflict of jurisdiction.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Urgente?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >#Urgente<\/a> l Lula se mantiene con sus derechos pol\u00edticos. El plenario de la Corte Suprema de <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Brasil?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >#Brasil<\/a> form\u00f3 mayor\u00eda para anular las sentencias contra Lula en la Lava Jato. La Corte consider\u00f3 el 13\u00b0 Tribunal de la ciudad de Curitiba incompetente. El juicio continua&#8230; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Xl4oVb8LL2\" >pic.twitter.com\/Xl4oVb8LL2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Andr\u00e9 Vieira (@AndreteleSUR) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AndreteleSUR\/status\/1382809793212133377?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >April 15, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>#Confirmed l By 8&#215;3, the judges of the Supreme Court of Brazil decide to annul all the sentences against Lula in the Lava Jato case. It is the last instance. Lula can run in the elections. The decision comes exactly five years after the beginning of the coup against Dilma Rousseff.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fachin considered that the two trials in which Lula was sentenced to prison, and two others in which there was still no sentence, were irregular since they were conducted in the courts of the city of Curitiba, under the charge of former judge Sergio Moro, who did not have jurisdiction whatsoever\u00a0over these matters.<\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=p2cBPO3eHE4<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telesurenglish.net\/news\/Supreme-Court-Confirms-Annulment-of-All-Charges-Against-Lula-20210415-0024.html\" >Go to Original &#8211; telesurenglish.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>15 Apr 2021 &#8211; Brazil&#8217;s Supreme Court today ratified the decision to annul the sentences against former president Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva. As a result, Lula will recover all of his political rights and be able to run, if he and his party so choose, in the country&#8217;s 2021 upcoming presidential elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":183094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[180],"tags":[1003,547,651,1134,1941],"class_list":["post-183093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brics","tag-brasil","tag-brazil","tag-justice","tag-lula-da-silva","tag-political-prisoner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}