Lula Agrees to Surrender to Brazil Police After Defying Order
  • 6 years ago

On Saturday, former Brazilian President Lula da Silva said he would surrender to police, a day after defying a judge’s order to start serving a 12-year prison sentence for corruption. Brazil’s first working-class president insisted on his innocence and called his bribery conviction a political crime, but relented after a nearly 24-hour standoff with authorities.
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