Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro begins serving a 27-year prison sentence
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Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro began serving his 27-year prison sentence for leading a bid to keep him in office after losing the 2022 presidential election. It prompts many in the South American nation to question whether it would have happened.
Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered Bolsonaro detained at Brazil’s police headquarters in Brasilia, where he has been held since Saturday after authorities said they removed his ankle guard with a soldering iron.
Bolsonaro will not communicate with several other prisoners at federal police headquarters. His square meter room has a bed, a private toilet, an air conditioner, a TV set and a desk, according to the federal police.
Brazil’s criminal law also allowed the 70-year-old worker to be transferred to a local port or a prison cell in the military complex in the capital Brasilia.
The former president and several of his allies were found guilty by a panel of Supreme Court judges of attempting to undermine Brazil’s democracy following his 2022 election defeat.
The building included plans to kill President Luiz Idio LULA DA Silva, said President Geraldo Alckmin and Julice de Moraes. The program is also involved in ebging to maturity in early 2023.
The former president was also found guilty of crimes including leading an armed criminal organization and trying to end the violence of the democratic rule.
Bolsonaro has always rejected evil.
Earlier on Tuesday, the supreme court of this country officially concluded the case of the attack on BOLsonaro, the decision that all appeals were exhausted and the guilty verdict is over. Reject monthly transfers this month.
US President Donald Trump threatened tariffs of 50 percent on all goods imported from Brazil – a country where the US has had surplus food for decades. Andrew Chang breaks down why Trump might be picking up Brazil, including his relationship with former President Jair Bolsonaro. Images provided by Getty Images, The Canadian Press and Reuters.
Still an important political figure
Bolsonaro remains at the head of Brazilian politics, although he is unlikely to run until at least 2030 after a different ruling by Brazil’s Electoral Court. Polls show he could be a candidate next year if allowed to run.
The former president is a close friend of former US president Donald Trump, who called the trial of the Brazilian leader “a witch hunt.” Bolsonaro was mentioned in July to manage in the US the management of tariffs on Brazilian exports with 50 tariffs.
Before his arrest on Saturday, Bolsonaro spent more than 100 days in custody in Brasilia in a separate trial for allegedly asking Trump to interfere with his prosecution.
Relations between the two countries have improved since, with Lula and Trump’s meeting in Malaysia at the Asean summit in October. Most of these top people have been demoted.
