Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro sentenced to 27 years in jail for election coup plot
Former Brazil president sentenced to lengthy jail term
- Former Brazil president Jair Bolsonaro has been sentenced to 27 years and three months in prison after being convicted of attempting a coup.
- A majority of Brazilian Supreme Court justices found Bolsonaro guilty on five counts related to his efforts to remain in office despite his 2022 electoral defeat.
- Prosecutors charged him with attempting to stage a coup, being part of an armed criminal organisation, and attempting violent abolition of the democratic rule of law.
- The justices concluded that his plot, though failing to secure military support, culminated in the storming of government buildings by his supporters on 8 January 2023.
- Bolsonaro, who denies wrongdoing and is currently under house arrest, plans to appeal the verdict; he was previously barred from public office until 2030.