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Brazil’s Lula says he now backs lowering age of criminal responsibility to 16

Brazil’s Lula says he now backs lowering age of criminal responsibility to 16

Lula reverses position on age of responsibility for ‘heinous’ crimes in what many see as a desperate electoral gambit Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has announced that he now supports lowering the age of criminal responsibility for “heinous” crimes from 18 to 16,

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