Brazil's ex-President Lula freed from jail Release comes after Supreme Court ruling ended mandatory

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Brazil's ex-President Lula freed from jail
Release comes after Supreme Court ruling ended mandatory imprisonment of convicts after they lose their first appeal.

Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva walked out of prison on Friday after his release was ordered by a judge.

The order came a day after the country's Supreme Court overturned a law that required the imprisonment of convicts after they lose their first appeal.

Lula was jailed in 2018 for eight years and 10 months after he was found guilty of taking bribes from engineering firms in return for government contracts.

Read more at: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/11/brazil-judge-orders-president-lula-released-prison-191108192957297.html