Bolsonaro

Brazil's Supreme Court ordered former President Jair Bolsonaro to begin serving his 27-year prison sentence for plotting a military coup to overturn the country's 2022 election.The big picture: Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes requested that his order be finalized, preventing Bolsonaro from filing any further appeals to overturn the…

Updated 26 November 2025 at 06:45 IST Brazil's Former President Jair Bolsonaro, a close ally of US President Donald Trump, was convicted in 2022 of conspiring to overthrow his successor, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. His defence team chose not to file a final appeal against the conviction. As…

Brazilian democracy has spent the past three years in a near-permanent state of tension – a full-body clench against an ex-president who refused to accept defeat. On Saturday morning, those muscles tightened again. Jair Bolsonaro, already convicted of plotting a coup and sentenced to 27 years in prison, was taken…

Updated : , ,   BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — On his first full day in jail, former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro told a judge on Sunday he had violated his ankle monitoring the day before at his house arrest because of a nervous breakdown and hallucinations caused by a change…

The former Brazilian president has been under house arrest since September, when the Supreme Court handed down a 27-year, three-month sentence for plotting a coup. Brazilian authorities took former president Jair Bolsonaro into custody early Saturday, saying he tried to tamper with his electronic ankle monitor just days before he…

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Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro — under house arrest while he appeals a conviction for a foiled coup attempt — was taken into custody on Saturday (November 22, 2025) after the Supreme Court deemed him a high flight risk. The court said the far-right firebrand — who was sentenced to…

Brazil’s Supreme Court on Saturday, November 22, ordered the preemptive arrest of former President Jair Bolsonaro, after Justice Alexandre de Moraes ruled that the 70-year-old politician was preparing to escape the country just days before he was due to begin his 27-year prison sentence for leading an attempted coup. Bolsonaro…

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