Human Wrongs Watch
By Pablo Stefanoni*

**Lula in June 2015. | Valter Campanato/ABr | Agência Brasil | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Brazil license.
As expected, the Supreme Federal Court of Brazil rejected the writ of habeas corpus presented by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s lawyers after he had been sentenced by two different courts of justice to 9 years first, and then to 12 years.
The offense attributed to him is that of having improperly received a three-floor apartment on the beach from the Brazilian construction company OAS in exchange for certain advantages while in government.