Overview
- The president signed the veto during a ceremony marking the third anniversary of the 2023 attacks in Brasília.
- The December measure approved by a conservative-led Congress would stop stacking penalties, allow sentence cuts of up to two thirds for crimes committed by a crowd, and enable transfer to a semi‑open regime after one sixth of a term.
- Applied to Jair Bolsonaro’s 27-year sentence, those rules could reduce time in closed prison from roughly eight years to a little over two years before semi‑open eligibility.
- Lula defended the judicial process as fair and praised the Supreme Federal Court’s handling of the Jan. 8 cases.
- According to the Supreme Court, nearly 1,400 people have been prosecuted, about 400 received sentences exceeding 10 years, and just over 100 remain in prison.