Pakistan, Nov. 26 -- Brazil's Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro to begin serving a 27-year prison sentence for plotting a failed coup to block Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from taking office after the 2022 elections. Bolsonaro, 70, exhausted all appeals before the court declared the judgment final.

The brash former army captain, who reshaped Brazil's political landscape, is jailed in a small, secure room at police headquarters in Brasilia equipped with a TV, mini-fridge, and air-conditioning. He had been under house arrest until Saturday, when he tampered with his ankle monitor using a soldering iron.Politics

Bolsonaro was convicted in September for attempting to overthrow Brazil's democracy, a plan...