"Brazil's lower house of Congress voted Wednesday to approve a bill that could significantly reduce former President Jair Bolsonaro's prison sentence. If the Senate also agrees to the bill, his 27-year sentence could be reduced to just over two years. The decision comes less than a month after Bolsonaro started serving his 27-year sentence for trying and failing to start an uprising against his successor, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, after losing the 2022 election."
"Separately, Bolsonaro's lawyers asked the Supreme Court to authorize his release so he can undergo "surgical procedures." They said the 70-year-old needs immediate hospitalization. They also urged the court to allow the ex-president to serve his sentence at home for "humanitarian" reasons. He is currently being held at a federal prison in Brasilia, the capital. Ruckus in Brazil Congress There was chaos in Brazil's Congress as the lower house discussed the bill that could reduce Bolsonaro's prison sentence."
"Lula-allied leftist lawmaker Glauber Braga disrupted Congress and was forcibly removed by police officers after he denounced a "coup offensive" and occupied the speaker's chair, according to footage broadcast on local television. The broadcast was interrupted and the debate was suspended, but the session resumed after order was restored. Braga said he was exercising his right "not to accept as a done deal an amnesty for a group of coup plotters.""
Brazil's lower house approved a bill that could reduce Jair Bolsonaro's 27-year prison sentence to just over two years if the Senate also agrees. Bolsonaro began serving the 27-year sentence less than a month earlier for attempting and failing to start an uprising after losing the 2022 election. His lawyers asked the Supreme Court to authorize his release for surgical procedures and to allow him to serve the sentence at home on humanitarian grounds; he is held at a federal prison in Brasilia. Debate over the bill prompted chaos in Congress and the forcible removal of lawmaker Glauber Braga. The bill would lower sentences for several crimes and could parole about 100 supporters jailed for the January 8 attack on government buildings.
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