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Urgent: Brazil court authorizes arrest warrant for ex-President Lula

Xinhua,April 06, 2018 Adjust font size:

RIO DE JANEIRO, April 5 (Xinhua) -- An appeals court on Thursday authorized Brazil's judiciary to issue an arrest warrant against ex-president and presidential hopeful Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

It comes just hours after the Federal Supreme Court rejected a habeas corpus motion to spare Lula from having to begin a 12-year prison sentence until he had exhausted his appeals process. Enditem

 

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