Brazil's Supreme Court delivered a 17-year prison sentence to Aécio Lúcio Costa Pereira, a supporter of former President Jair Bolsonaro who stormed top government offices on January 8.
handed a 17-year prison sentence Thursday to a supporter of former President Jair Bolsonaro who stormed top government offices on Jan. 8 in an alleged bid to forcefully restore the right-wing leader to office.
Aécio Lúcio Costa Pereira, 51, is the first of several participants in the uprising to be prosecuted. In January, cameras at the Senate filmed him wearing a shirt calling for a military coup and recording a video of himself praising others who had also broken into the building. Almost 1,500 people wereBrazil's Supreme Court has sentenced a rioter who stormed the capital on Jan. 8 to 17 years in prison.
Three other defendants also were standing trial Thursday as part of the same case, and a final decision for each defendant could drag into coming days. Get all the stories you need-to-know from the most powerful name in news delivered first thing every morning to your inbox
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