{"id":41990,"date":"2025-11-26T11:05:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T11:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/bolsonaro-ordered-to-start-serving-27-year-prison-sentence-for-coup-plot\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T11:05:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T11:05:02","slug":"bolsonaro-ordered-to-start-serving-27-year-prison-sentence-for-coup-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/bolsonaro-ordered-to-start-serving-27-year-prison-sentence-for-coup-plot\/","title":{"rendered":"Bolsonaro ordered to start serving 27-year prison sentence for coup plot"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Watch: Police share footage of prison cell for Brazil’s former President Bolsonaro<\/figcaption><\/p>\n
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Brazil’s Supreme Court has ordered that right-wing former president Jair Bolsonaro begin serving his prison sentence of 27 years and three months for plotting a coup after he lost the last election.<\/p>\n

Justice Alexandre de Moraes on Tuesday ruled that the case had reached its final judgement and that no further appeals were possible. <\/p>\n

Bolsonaro, 70, was found guilty of leading a conspiracy aimed at keeping him in power after he lost the 2022 election to his left-wing rival, Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva.<\/p>\n

He will begin serving his sentence in a federal police jail cell in the capital, Brasilia, where he has been detained since Saturday after being deemed a flight risk and removed from home detention. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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At a hearing on Sunday, Bolsonaro admitted trying to open his ankle monitor with a soldering iron until he “came to his senses”, court documents show. <\/p>\n

He said he had had no intention of fleeing and blamed medicine-induced “paranoia” for damage he caused to the monitor. <\/p>\n

Justice Moraes on Tuesday mandated that full-time medical care be given to Bolsonaro, whose medical team has previously said he is suffering from worsening health.<\/a><\/p>\n

Supreme Court justices said in September, when Bolsonaro was found guilty of plotting a coup, that he had known of plans to assassinate Lula and his vice-presidential running mate, Geraldo Alckmin, and to arrest and execute Moraes, who has been overseeing Bolsonaro’s trial.<\/p>\n

The conspiracy failed to get the backing of the army and air force commanders. Lula was sworn in without incident on 1 January 2023.<\/p>\n

But a week later, on 8 January, thousands of Bolsonaro supporters stormed government buildings in Bras\u00edlia. The security forces intervened and about 1,500 people were arrested.<\/p>\n

The justices found that the rioters had been incited by Bolsonaro, whose plan, they said, was for the military to step in and return him to power.<\/p>\n

Bolsonaro was also barred from running for public office until 2060 – eight years after the end of his sentence.<\/p>\n

The former president called the trial a “witch hunt” designed to prevent him running in the 2026 presidential election.<\/p>\n

Justice Moraes also ordered on Tuesday that others found guilty of being Bolsonaro’s co-conspirators must begin their sentences.<\/p>\n

They include Gen Augusto Heleno, former minister for institutional security, and Gen Paulo S\u00e9rgio Nogueira de Oliveira, former defence minister.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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