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Re:Giant leak exposes data from almost all Brazilians by marcodiego on Monday January 25, 2021 @05:31PM (#25909855)
> he only got freed from jail because of a new legal ruling that said that you can't be jailed until all appeals have been heard

Actually Lula deliberately chose to stay imprisoned: https://veja.abril.com.br/politica/lula-nao-quer-cumprir-pen...

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Re:Giant leak exposes data from almost all Brazilians by Natsu on Monday January 25, 2021 @06:12PM (#25910250)
Your article refers to the "regime semiaberto" that Lula was offered after completing one sixth of his sentence. This was prior to the Brazilian Supreme Court ruling that released him on 8 November 2019. His case is still pending before the Supremo Tribunal Federal.
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Re:Giant leak exposes data from almost all Brazilians by marcodiego on Monday January 25, 2021 @09:46PM (#25911823)
Translating: Lula could go on probation but deliberately chose to remain imprisoned because he did not '[...] recognized any legitimacy of the process which condemned him[...]'.

The supreme court then ruled that "you can't be jailed until all appeals have been heard". Only then he decided to get out of prison.

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Re:Giant leak exposes data from almost all Brazilians by Natsu on Monday January 25, 2021 @10:01PM (#25911918)
I don't think we're disagreeing with each other at this point. He was only actually freed by the supreme court ruling that he could not be jailed until all appeals (of which there are many) were exhausted.

Regime semiaberto is roughly equivalent to being allowed to go out under house arrest and wouldn't have changed his conditions much.

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