Brazil's Lula should have political rights - UN Human Rights Committee

The U.N. Human Rights Committee on Friday said it had requested that the Brazilian government allow imprisoned former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to exercise his political rights.

Lula is the presidential candidate for his Workers Party and leads polls ahead of the October ballot but is widely expected to be banned from running by an electoral court. He was jailed in April on a corruption conviction. (Reporting by Brad Brooks Additional reporting by Stephanie Ulmer-Nebehay in Geneva and Lisandra Paraguassu in Brasilia Editing by Daniel Flynn and Brad Haynes)

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