Lula Livre Was Just the Beginning

Lula is finally out of jail — although, as both Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn made clear yesterday, he should have never been there in the first place. It has become increasingly evident that Lula never had a fair trial. He was, in fact, a political prisoner — a victim of lawfare: the manipulation of judicial institutions for politically motivated persecution.

Since Lula’s imprisonment, documents released by Glenn Greenwald and the Intercept have shown that the judge and prosecutors were colluding, constructing the case together, and calculating their actions for...