US EditionBrazil's top court imposes 17-year sentence, in first case against rioters who stormed the capital
- A man has been sentenced to 17 years in prison for his involvement in riots that occurred in Brazil's capital after the presidential election.
- The riots were a result of thousands of people refusing to accept the far-right president Jair Bolsonaro's loss, with protesters ransacking government buildings.
- The man, Pereira, was arrested inside the Senate building and denied wrongdoing, claiming he believed he was at a peaceful protest. However, he was seen urging fellow Bolsonaro supporters to "take to the streets" in a video filmed at the Senate president's table during the riots.
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In Brazil, the Supreme Court sentenced a first defendant to 17 years in prison for the storming of the government district.
Brazil’s Supreme Court sentences first of pro-Bolsonaro rioters to 17 years in prison - La Prensa Latina Media
Brasilia, Sept 14 (EFE). – Brazil’s Supreme Court sentenced on Thursday to 17 years in prison the first of the 1,390 defendants charged in the January 8 uprising, when a mob of supporters of former president Jair Bolsonaro stormed the headquarters of the nation’s three branches of government a week after the inauguration of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Aécio Pereira, the first defendant to sit in the dock, was found guilty unanimously by…
The Brazilian Supreme Court on Thursday imposed severe penalties on three supporters of former president Jair Bolsonaro. They were convicted for their part in the violent storming of the parliament buildings and the Supreme Court in the capital Brasília on January 8 this year. In the first trial in the case, two of them were sentenced to 17 years in prison, another received 14 years in prison.
Brazil sentences three to over 14 years for storming government buildings
BRASILIA, Sept 15 — Brazil’s Supreme Court voted yesterday to convict the first three people to stand trial for the storming of government buildings in the capital Brasilia on January 8, sentencing them to at least 14 years in prison. A majority of judges voted to convict Aecio Lucio Costa Pereira, a former employee of water utility Sabesp, who was arrested in the Senate building during the invasion, for crimes that include an attempted coup d’e…
Het Braziliaanse Hooggerechtshof heeft donderdag forse straffen opgelegd aan drie aanhangers van oud-president Jair Bolsonaro voor hun aandeel in de gewelddadige bestorming van de parlementsgebouwen en het Hooggerechtshof in de hoofdstad Brasília op 8 januari van dit jaar. In het eerste proces in de zaak werden twee van hen veroordeeld tot 17 jaar celstraf, één kreeg 14 jaar gevangenisstraf.
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