US EditionBrazil's Bolsonaro guilty of coup charges, court majority decides in landmark trial
- Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro was convicted by the Supreme Court for plotting a coup after his 2022 electoral defeat.
- Bolsonaro faces a maximum potential sentence of 40 years in prison for crimes including attempting to violently abolish democracy.
- The conviction echoes legal condemnations of far-right leaders elsewhere and is expected to enrage Bolsonaro's ally, U.S. President Donald Trump.
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The extreme right-wing Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro was sentenced on Thursday to trial for attempted coup d'état, for trying to prevent the return to power of the current left-wing president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
With the favorable vote of three of the five judges of the Federal Supreme Court, the former Brazilian president was convicted for attempting a coup d'état.
Brazil Supreme Court Majority Votes to Convict Bolsonaro of a Coup
A majority of Supreme Court justices found former President Jair Bolsonaro guilty of plotting a coup to overturn the 2022 election, raising the prospect of decades in prison. One of the judges was communist president Lula da Silva’s personal attorney who already said Bolsonaro is guilty of attacks against the State. Two other judges are […] The post Brazil Supreme Court Majority Votes to Convict Bolsonaro of a Coup appeared first on www.independ…
Brazilian Supreme Court Majority Votes to Convict Jair Bolsonaro of Coup Attempt
A majority on the Brazilian Supreme Court on Thursday voted to convict former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro of attempting to overthrow the government following his loss in the country’s 2022 election. Prosecutors charged Bolsonaro with five counts, including an attempted coup, being part of an armed criminal organization, attempted violent abolition of democratic rule of law, damage characterized by violence, and a serious threat against th…
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