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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Tiago Rogero in Rio de Janeiro

Brazil’s congress approves bill reducing prison sentence of former president Jair Bolsonaro

In a white shirt, Jair Bolsonaro looks pensive while his son Flávio, wearing a yellow short-sleeved sports top, smiles while holding a microphone
If confirmed by a supreme court justice, the sentence Jair Bolsonaro (right, pictured with his son, Flávio Bolsonaro) received for attempting a coup will be reduced. Photograph: Anadolu/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

Brazil’s largely conservative congress has approved a bill reducing the prison sentence of the far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro, who was convicted last year of attempting a coup.

The bill had initially been passed by congress in December, but President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva vetoed it in January in a symbolic move marking three years since Bolsonaro supporters ransacked the capital, Brasília.

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