Overview
- Flávio Bolsonaro, a presidential hopeful, met Anderson Torres at the Papuda complex in Brasília on Saturday and called him a “victim of persecution.”
- He said on X that he will keep fighting for “full amnesty” for people he says were wronged in the Jan. 8 cases, noting the visit fell on Torres’s wife Flávia’s birthday.
- The visit followed Thursday’s congressional vote that overturned President Lula’s veto of the sentencing bill, passing 318–144 in the Chamber and 49–24 in the Senate.
- The measure stops judges from stacking the crimes of coup and abolition of the democratic state, applies only the harsher penalty with an extra one-sixth to one-half, and allows one- to two‑thirds cuts when offenses occurred in a crowd without leaders or financiers.
- O Antagonista reports Lula signaled he will not promulgate the bill, raising the chance of tacit promulgation, and any reductions would still require Supreme Court execution of sentences that could affect up to 849 people, including Torres’s 24‑year term.