The long political-judicial persecution against former Brazilian President Lula Inacio da Silva continued.

The politician was sentenced to 12 years and 11 months in prison for "corruption and money laundering", an accusation similar to that of the previous trials, which ended with sentences of 12 years.

Although the first sentence is being appealed to the Supreme Court and this second will also be appealed, the former President was imprisoned in April 2018 and is still in prison.

The detention made it possible to separate Lula from the electoral campaign, when he headed opinion polls, and open the way to the election of far-right candidate, Jair Bolsonaro.

The numerous national and international denunciations of the use of the Brazilian justice as an instrument of political persecution against the PT leader was ratified when the first judge who condemned Lula, Sergio Moro, was appointed as Minister of Justice by the new President, Bolsonaro. It should be noted that this second sentence has been dictated precisely by the substitute judge of Moro, Gabriela Hardt.

Recently, a large group of Nobel Laureates and Latin American personalities, led by the Argentine Alfonse Perez Esquivel, proposed to the Swedish Academy to nominate Lula as a candidate for the next Nobel Peace Prize, for its Zero Hunger program, which lifted 30 million people from poverty, and for his role as mediator in regional conflicts.