Brazil's former president gets 27-year jail for coup attempt
BRASILIA, Sept. 13 -- A panel of Brazilian Supreme Court justices sentenced former president Jair Bolsonaro to 27 years and three months in prison on Thursday after convicting him of attempting a coup to remain in office despite his 2022 electoral defeat.
Bolsonaro, who has always denied any wrongdoing, can try to appeal the ruling. He is under house arrest in Brasilia. Four of the five justices reviewing the case in the panel found the far-Right politician guilty on five counts. It makes Bolsonaro is the first former Brazilian president to be convicted of attempting a coup. The five counts are: attempting a coup after losing the 2022 race to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in a plot that prosecutors alleged included plans to kill Lula; participating in an armed criminal organisation; attempted violent abolition of the democratic rule of law; damage qualified by violence; and deterioration of listed heritage....
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