Brazil: Hundreds turn up at union HQ harboring jail-bound Lula da Silva
Hundreds of supporters gathered outside a Metalworkers' Union HQ in the city of Sao Bernardo do Campo where former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was staying on Thursday night.
People gathered to voice their support for the scandal-struck 72-year-old outside the headquarters, holding signs reading 'Lula's innocent' and 'No prison for Lula.'
Earlier the Supreme Court confirmed that Lula will serve a prison sentence directly after the rejection of his first appeal by a vote of 6:5 and he has been ordered to hand himself into the authorities.
The defendant was sentenced to a 12-year jail term for corruption and money laundering in a corruption case known as Operation Car Wash. He was convicted of receiving bribes.
He now needs to overturn the ruling before Brazilian presidential candidates are officially announced in August as a conviction would sink his election ambitions, but he will remain in jail until such a ruling is confirmed.
(Source: Ruptly)
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