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Judge Orders Brazil to Release Ex-President Lula, Setting Off Legal Uproar

FILE -- Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the former president of Brazil, greets a large crowd of supporters outside the union hall where he had been staying in São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil, April 7, 2018. A judge in Brazil ruled on July 8 that da Silva be released from prison while he continues to appeal a corruption conviction, an unexpected decision that touched off an immediate legal and political uproar. (Lalo de Almeida/The New York Times)