Bolsonaro

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been sentenced to over 27 years in prison for attempting a coup Luis Nova Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro stands at the entrance of his home where he is under house arrest in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Luis Nova) With Bolsonaro…

In September 2018, as Jair Bolsonaro campaigned in the south-eastern city of Juiz de Fora, a 40-year-old man pushed through the crowd and stabbed the presidential candidate in the stomach. Images of Bolsonaro doubled over in pain, wearing a T-shirt in Brazil’s football colours, were shared millions of times and…

Brazil’s Supreme Court on Thursday found former President Jair Bolsonaro guilty of conspiracies related to his failed 2022 reelection bid. The court found that Bolsonaro tried to instigate a military coup and to poison his opponent, current President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Bolsonaro, the former president of Latin America’s…

The Brazilian Federal Supreme Court has sentenced the country’s former President, Jair Bolsonaro, to more than 27 years in prison for attempting a coup. The country’s media reports on Friday that a majority of the five-member chamber of the STF found the 70-year-old guilty. Bolsonaro is the first former Brazilian…

by Admin Josh · September 12, 2025 Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been sentenced to 27 years and three months in prison for plotting a military coup. The Supreme Court ruling came just hours after a panel of five justices convicted him of conspiring to stay in power following…

WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday said the United States would respond, without specifying how, after former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was convicted of plotting a coup to remain in power after losing the 2022 election. "The political persecutions by sanctioned human rights abuser Alexandre de…

President Donald Trump’s rebukes of judges and courtroom prosecutors have extended far beyond the United States’ borders in his second term in office, as he and his officials question the fairness of an increasing number of foreign nations’ domestic court systems — including those of long-standing allies — whose rulings…

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The verdict is in for Jair Bolsonaro. A panel of Brazilian Supreme Court justices sentenced the former president to 27 years and 3 months in prison on Thursday, after he was found guilty of plotting a coup in 2022.   Bolsonaro is the first former Brazilian president to be convicted of…

Getty Images-Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is pictured during a previous appearance at the Supreme Federal Court in Brasília, Brazil, in June. Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro has been found guilty of attempting to overturn the country’s 2022 election with a plot prosecutors say included plans to assassinate the president-elect…