GENEVA, Switzerland.- Several acts for the freedom of former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will be held in 36 cities around the world, when this Sunday a year has passed since his incarceration..

Baptized as Meeting for Lula’s Freedom, the rally will take place in the Square of Nations and gather hundreds of people, including members of the Brazilian community in Switzerland and neighboring countries.

Translated to several languages, the United Nations call widely disseminated among the progressive sectors of European society and warned of the movement carried out in recent years to annihilate left-wing governments in Latin America.

Lula remains a prisoner at the headquarters of the Federal Police in Curitiba, capital of the southern state of Paraná, since April 7, 2018, when he began to serve 12 years and a month.