Free Lula movement

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The International Committee of Solidarity in Defence of Lula and Democracy in Brazil (Brazilian Portuguese: Comitê Internacional de Solidariedade a Lula preso no Brasil), also known as the Free Lula Movement (Brazilian Portuguese: Movimento Lula Livre), was a political and social movement composed of several Brazilian entities that advocated the release of the then ex-President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, known as Lula, from prison. Lula was convicted of money laundering and passive corruption, defined in Brazilian criminal law as the receipt of a bribe by a civil servant or government official. In 2017 he was sentenced to nine years and six months in prison by judge Sergio Moro. On February 6, 2019, in another trial he was sentenced to 12 years and 11 months of imprisonment for the crimes of passive corruption and money laundering in the process that deals with the receipt of undue advantages through reforms made at a site in Atibaia and paid by Odebrecht and Schahin as counterpart for...

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