SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s Supreme Courtroom on Monday ordered the home arrest for former President Jair Bolsonaro, on trial for allegedly main a coup try after dropping the 2022 election.
The court docket’s Justice Alexandre de Moraes issued the order, saying in his determination that Bolsonaro had violated the precautionary measures imposed on him by posting content material on his son’s social media channels.
Prosecutors accuse Bolsonaro of heading a felony group that plotted to overturn the election, together with plans to kill President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and a Supreme Courtroom justice. Monday’s order adopted one from the highest court docket final month that ordered Bolsonaro put on an digital ankle monitor and imposed a curfew on his actions whereas the proceedings are underway.
The most recent determination retains the far-right chief below ankle monitoring, permits solely members of the family and attorneys to go to him and seizes all cell phones from his dwelling in Rio de Janeiro.
