Lula Vows to Veto Bill Reducing Coup Plot Sentences

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The Spin

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Câmara dos Deputados

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Brasil de Fato

This bill creates nothing new and merely returns power to the same Supreme Court that committed the abuses in the first place. Existing mechanisms for sentence reduction were deliberately ignored, making this legislation a facade that legitimizes political persecution and abandons thousands of families destroyed by the system.

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