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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro

Brazil’s Bolsonaro finds novel way to reduce 27-year sentence: reading books

Bolsonaro with several people around him leaves a hospital in September where he went to undergo a skin surgery procedure
Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, centre, once said that he did not have time to read. Photograph: Adriano Machado/Reuters

Jair Bolsonaro’s lawyers appear to have been reading up on the country’s penal code and have found a way to help their client reduce the 27-year prison sentence he received last year for plotting a coup: by reading books.

There is only one problem: the former far-right Brazilian president has never been known as a bibliophile. “Sorry, I don’t have time to read,” Bolsonaro once declared. “It’s been three years since I read a book.”

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