Supporters rally around Brazil's Lula as prison term looms

Former Brazilian President Luis Inácio Lula da Silva has appeared on stage before supporters outside Sao Paulo as he defies a court order to begin a 12-year jail term for corruption.

He rose up out of the association building where he is remaining to go to a Mass for his late spouse, Marisa Leticia.

Dilma Rousseff, his reprimanded successor as president, went along with him on the phase alongside a few clerics.

Two a minute ago interests to have his capture warrant suspended have fizzled.

Lula says the argument against him was politically inspired.

An expansive horde of supporters are encompassing the association working in the suburb of Sao Bernardo do Campo, where Lula constructed his exchange association and political vocation.

The previous metalworker and exchange association extremist is a notorious figure for the left in Latin America. He is the main left-wing pioneer to make it to the Brazilian administration in almost 50 years.

The specialists push he isn't being viewed as a criminal, as everybody knows where he seems to be.

Why is Lula doing this?

Lula says his conviction was intended to prevent him from running for president in October's survey, which he had been most loved to win.

In a request issued on Thursday, government judge Sergio Moro said Lula needed to introduce himself before 17:00 nearby time (20:00 GMT) on Friday at the elected police home office in the southern city of Curitiba.

Minutes under the steady gaze of the due date, his legal counselors lost an offer to keep him out of prison while he advanced against his conviction.

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Lula blurbs are held tight fencing at the association building

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Lula's adversaries dissented outside the government police central station where he was intended to surrender. The sign peruses: "Lula, the place for a hoodlum is jail."

A grasping 24 hours

By Katy Watson, BBC News, Sao Bernardo do Campo

These previous 24 hours have enthralled Brazil. Helicopters have been orbiting the metalworkers' association building where Lula is with his supporters, broadcasting each move for watchers the nation over.

Media captionLula waves at some of his supporters, who have taken to the road

As Friday went on the group got greater. The due date traveled every which way, and the a large number of Lula fans holding up outside carried on in any case - droning their help for a man numerous say was the best president Brazil at any point had.

What happens now however is misty - notwithstanding for a nation used to entangled political adventures, this is strange region. Will he go enthusiastically, or would he be able to - and his supporters - set up a battle? There is worry that Lula's death could yet turn rough.

Who is Lula?

Lula filled in as president from 2003-2011. Regardless of a lead in sentiment surveys in front of October's race, he remains a disruptive figure.

While he was in office, Brazil encountered its longest time of monetary development in three decades, enabling his organization to spend sumptuously on social projects.

A huge number of individuals were lifted out of neediness because of the activities taken by his legislature and he exited office after two back to back terms (the most extreme permitted in Brazil) with record prominence appraisals.

What was he sentenced?

The charges against Lula originated from a hostile to defilement examination known as Operation Car Wash, which hosts entangled best lawmakers from a few gatherings.

He was sentenced accepting a remodeled beachfront condo worth exactly 3.7m reais ($1.1m, £790,000), as a reward from designing firm OAS.

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Lula is said to have acknowledged a level in this square in Guaruja as a pay off

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The protection says Lula's responsibility for loft has never been demonstrated and that his conviction lays generally on the expression of the previous executive of OAS, himself sentenced defilement.

What occurs straightaway?

Incomparable Court Justice Edson Fachin rejected Lula's allure on Saturday, a day after his interest to the Superior Court was declined.

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Supporters of the judge who requested Lula's capture are accumulated outside government police HQ

The two courts did not reevaluate Lula's conviction, just whether lawful techniques were taken after accurately and his protected rights were watched.

Requesting his surrender on Thursday, Judge Moro said the previous president would have a different cell with its own particular latrine in Curitiba.

He would not be cuffed in the event that he came unobtrusively, the judge guaranteed