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Brazilians protest a bill that would reduce former President Bolsonaro’s time in jail
Brazilians protest a bill that would reduce former President Bolsonaro’s time in jail
Tens of thousands of Brazilians demonstrated Sunday (December 14, 2025) against a bill that advanced in Congress this week, which would reduce the time former President Jair Bolsonaro spends behind bars following his sentence of more than 27 years for attempting a coup.
Protests took place in the capital, Brasilia and in other major cities across the country, including Sao Paulo, Florianopolis, Salvador and Recife.
On Copacabana's boardwalk in Rio de Janeiro, crowds composed of left-wing voters chanted “No amnesty” and “Out with Hugo Motta,” a reference to the speaker of the lower house, which approved the bill on Wednesday (December 10). It is now with the Senate.
“It's an attempt to protect those who tried to attempt a coup,” said Antonio Edson Lima de Oliveira, a 56-year-old geologist who was at the protest in Rio. “Brazil has already had several dictatorships and they were awful for the country. We never want it to happen again.”
Famed musicians including Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil performed in Rio, where the sun was sweltering and the atmosphere both festive and indignant. Many held signs reading “Congress is the enemy of the people.”
“It's very important that they're here, encouraging people to hit the streets. But I think we mustn't come only to sing, we have to come to actually fight,” said Lavinia Scalia, an 18-year-old organizer of student movements.
Paulinho da Força, the sponsor of the bill that passed Wednesday (December 10), has said it's aimed at reconciliation and that if it's adopted, the right-wing ex-President's time behind bars could be reduced to two years and four months. But it would need to be sanctioned by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and the leftist president has previously said he would veto it.
The legislation would shorten prison sentences for all those convicted — including Bolsonaro — in connection with a riot on January 8, 2023 when Bolsonaro's supporters invaded government buildings in Brasilia.
Justices said the ex-leader led a criminal organisation behind the insurrection, which they said was aimed at overthrowing Lula, who had taken office a week earlier after defeating Bolsonaro in the October 2022 election.
The proposal would reduce Bolsonaro's prison time by requiring the sentences for two of his convictions to run concurrently rather than consecutively, namely the crimes of attempting a coup and violent overthrow of the rule of law.
The bill also would change conditions for full and partial parole, allowing release from full confinement to day parole after serving one-sixth of the sentence, down from one-fourth currently.
Bolsonaro and his allies had advocated for an amnesty for the former leader, but the legislation passed Wednesday focuses on reduction of sentences rather than an annulment of convictions.
Even this watered-down version is likely to be modified in the Senate following the protests, said Luciana Santana, a politics professor at the Federal University of Alagoas.
“The composition of the Senate, the mobilizations and the fact that the vote in the lower house took place in the early hours of the morning mean the environment in favor of the bill is not as favorable as it was in the lower house,” she said.
International attention to Bolsonaro's legal woes surged after U.S. President Donald Trump in July imposed a 50% tariff on Brazilian goods, citing among other reasons, Bolsonaro's trial, which he called a witch hunt.
That led to the worst moment in U.S.-Brazil relations in their 200-year history. Relations have since improved, and in October Lula and Mr. Trump met in Malaysia.
The U.S. has removed the tariffs on many goods, including coffee and beef, and on Friday (December 12), the U.S. withdrew Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes from its sanctions list. He had initially been added over his role in leading the trial against Bolsonaro.
Published - December 15, 2025 07:18 am IST
World / Brazil / crime
Source: TheHindu
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