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Lula in Malaysia: “If it’s up to Trump and me, there will be a deal.” Photo: Ricardo Stuckert/PR
The defense team of former President Jair Bolsonaro has appealed to Brazil’s Supreme Court to overturn or reduce his 27-year prison sentence for plotting a coup after losing the 2022 election to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The filing, submitted on Monday — the final day allowed under the law — claims the conviction was marred by “profound injustices” and “contradictions and omissions.”
On September 11, a Supreme Court panel convicted Bolsonaro and seven allies of crimes against democracy — a conspiracy that involved…
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