US EditionBrazilians rally against effort to soften punishment for Bolsonaro, allies
Protesters reject legislative efforts to reduce Bolsonaro’s 27-year sentence for the 2023 coup attempt, with about 15,000 gathering in São Paulo alone, researchers said.
- On Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025, tens of thousands of Brazilians protested a bill passed by Congress this week that would shorten prison sentences for Jan. 8, 2023 riot convicts, including Jair Bolsonaro, former President.
- Paulinho da Força, sponsor of the bill, says it would make two Jair Bolsonaro convictions run concurrently and allow day parole after one-sixth of a sentence, potentially cutting his time to two years and four months.
- Music and chants accompanied demonstrations, with Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil performing as crowds on Copacabana chanted "No amnesty" and carried signs against Hugo Motta and Congress.
- Despite lower‑house approval Wednesday, analysts note the bill still requires President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's sanction, who has said he would veto it, and politics professor Luciana Santana expects Senate modifications.
- On the diplomatic front, U.S. President Donald Trump imposed a 50% tariff on Brazilian goods and called Bolsonaro's trial `a witch hunt`, but relations improved after the U.S. removed tariffs, withdrew Alexandre de Moraes from sanctions, and Lula met Trump in Malaysia in October.
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Brazilians protest against bids to ease punishment for Bolsonaro, allies
Thousands of Brazilians have rallied in cities across the country to oppose a congressional bill that would sharply reduce the prison sentence of former President Jair Bolsonaro.
Tens of thousands of Brazilians went down the street, protesting against a reduction in the sentence of the former president, wanted by elected officials in Parliament.
Tens of thousands of people went down the streets on Sunday in Brazil to oppose the will of the Brazilian Parliament to reduce the sentence of the extreme right-wing president Jair Bolsonaro, sentenced to 27 years in prison for attempted coup d'état. The call to protest in the main cities of the country was launched by left-wing organizations after Brazilian deputies, with a majority pro-Bolsonaro, adopted a bill that could reduce the sentence o…
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