2 w. ago Brazil’s Bolsonaro goes to hospital for the second time since his coup trial conviction

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has returned to a hospital in Brasilia

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3 w. ago The Guardian view on Bolsonaro’s coup conviction: a landmark for Brazilian democracy – but this fight isn’t over | Editorial

Though the far-right former president has been held accountable for overseeing the plot, supporters at home and abroad still rally to his causeA populist president refused to accept his defeat at the ballot box, insisting that the election had been stolen. A far-right mob stormed the country’s institutions in his support. Yet democracy prevailed. And then, on Thursday, Brazil’s supreme court sentenced the former president Jair Bolsonaro to 27 years in prison for leading a criminal conspiracy to overturn the 2022 elections and “annihilate” democracy through a coup. The sprawling plot was both modern and crudely old school – extending from an online disinformation campaign to undermine faith in the voting system, to aborted plans to assassinate the newly elected president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, known as Lula, and the supreme court justice investigating Bolsonaro. It culminated in the riots in Brasília in January 2023.Four of the five judges on the panel found Bolsonaro guilty...

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3 w. ago Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro sentenced to 27 years in jail for election coup plot

The former president sought to remain in power after losing 2022 election

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3 w. ago Brazil's former president Jair Bolsonaro guilty of coup plot

The former president is facing a potential decades-long prison sentence for attempting to unlawfully remain in power after his defeat in the 2022 election

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3 w. ago Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro found guilty of 2022 election coup plot

The former president faces decades-long jail sentence for seeking to remain in power after losing 2022 election

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3 w. ago Brazil Supreme Court justice breaks with 2 peers, votes to absolve Bolsonaro as trial continues

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was given some respite on Wednesday after a Supreme Court justice voted to acquit him from all charges in his alleged coup trial

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