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  • Court sentences Brazil’s ex-president to 27 years imprisonment

    Court sentences Brazil’s ex-president to 27 years imprisonment

    Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro has been sentenced to more than 27 years in prison for attempting a coup, the country’s Supreme Federal Court (STF) made the announcement.

    A majority of the five-member chamber of the STF found the 70-year-old guilty, according to local media.

    Bolsonaro is the first former Brazilian president convicted over an attempted coup, after his supporters stormed the Brazilian Congress, Supreme Court, and presidential palace on January 8, 2023.

    The former president did not appear in court himself.

    Meanwhile, since early August, Bolsonaro has been under house arrest for violations of previous court conditions.

    The verdict had originally been scheduled for Friday.

  • Coup: Brazil files charges against ex-president Jair Bolsonaro

    Coup: Brazil files charges against ex-president Jair Bolsonaro

    Brazil’s Attorney General’s Office has filed charges against former right-wing president, Jair Bolsonaro in connection with an alleged coup plot to overturn the 2022 election.

    The charges, which must be formally accepted by the Supreme Court, came following a recommendation from the Brazil’s national police.

    In addition,  Prosecutor-General, Paulo Gonet filed charges against 33 other people.

    They faced a number of charges, including of being involved in an attempted coup d’état and an armed criminal organisation and the violent abolition of the rule of law.

    This is according to a statement from Gonet’s office.

    In November, police said that Bolsonaro “directly and actively participated’’ in plotting a coup to overturn the election along with his supporters.

    Bolsonaro, who was president from 2019 to 2022, was also fully aware of an alleged plan by soldiers to kill Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who defeated him in the election.

    This was well as Lula’s vice president and a Supreme Court judge, the November report said.

    Bolsonaro rejected the accusations against him.

    Bolsonaro’s defence team said in a statement it met the accusations with dismay and indignation, the G1 website reported.

    His team said Bolsonaro had never collaborated with a movement that aimed to undermine the democratic rule of law.

    Bolsonaro’s son, Flávio Bolsonaro wrote on X that there was no proof against his father.

    On Jan. 8, 2023, Bolsonaro supporters who refused to recognise Lula’s election victory stormed the Brazilian Congress, the government buildings and the Supreme Court in Brasília, causing significant damage.

    A number of other proceedings were under way against Bolsonaro.

    The police accuse him of illegally selling jewellery and luxury watches that he received as official gifts in Saudi Arabia during his term in office for his own benefit.

    The former president has consistently denied the allegations.

    According to investigators, he also had vaccination passports forged for him, family members and employees during the Coronavirus pandemic.

  • [Video] At least 46 people injured after protests in Brazil

    [Video] At least 46 people injured after protests in Brazil

    At least 46 people were injured as a result of protests in Brazil, Spanish newspaper 20 Minutos reported, citing data from the capital’s hospital.

    Six of those 46 hospitalised in Brasilia are in serious condition and two required emergency medical care, according to the newspaper.

    Supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, protesting the results of the presidential election since late 2022, stormed the National Congress building.

    They also stormed Palacio do Planalto, one of the official palaces of the Presidency as well as the Supreme Court building in the Brazilian capital on Sunday.

    Police regained control of the buildings on the evening of the same day and arrested more than 400 people.

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  • Brazilian President Bolsonaro hospitalised with intestinal blockage

    Brazilian President Bolsonaro hospitalised with intestinal blockage

    Brazilian President, Jair Bolsonaro, was taken to hospital in São Paulo on Monday with a suspected intestinal blockage.

    The 66-year-old was admitted for treatment after complaining of “abdominal discomfort,” the government said in a statement on Tuesday.

    According to the g1 news website, he was flown to the hospital from Santa Catarina, where he was holidaying on the southern coast of Brazil.

    In an updated report late Monday citing the hospital, the government said the president was showing improvement after a nasal tube was inserted.

    According to the report, he no longer has fever nor abdominal pain again, he was seen taking a short walk in the corridors of the hospital.

    “It is not yet clear if more treatment is necessary.”

    The right-wing populist politician was diagnosed with an intestinal blockage back in July, after which he spent several days in a São Paulo hospital.

    This time around, Bolsonaro’s doctor, Antônio Luiz Macedo, interrupted his own holiday in the Bahamas to return to Brazil to treat the president, g1 reported.

    Macedo operated on Bolsonaro after a knife attack during the 2018 election campaign that left him in a critical condition.

    At the campaign event in September 2018, a mentally ill man stabbed Bolsonaro, seriously damaging his abdomen.

    The former army captain continued campaigning from hospital and won the presidential election a month later.

    Bolsonaro was forced to undergo several operations when he took office in early 2019, including surgery to repair his intestinal tract.

  • Brazilian president again tests positive for COVID-19

    Brazilian president again tests positive for COVID-19

    Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has again tested positive for COVID-19, the country’s Communications Ministry said on Wednesday.

    The 65-year-old is in good health, the ministry told dpa by email.

    “Bolsonaro has no fever and his breathing, heartbeat and blood pressure are normal,’’ CNN Brazil reported.

    The positive test result was at least the third for the far-right populist president, who for months downplayed the severity of the pandemic and still advocates keeping the economy open.

    Bolsonaro is currently working from his residence. Several of his ministers have also been diagnosed with COVID-19.

    Brazil recorded 41,008 new coronavirus cases and 1,367 deaths in the last 24-hour count, bringing the total to nearly 2.2 million infections and 81,487 deaths.

    The real figures are believed to be far higher due to insufficient testing.

    Brazil is the country most affected by COVID-19, after the U. S.

    “However, the infections no longer appear to be increasing as rapidly as before,’’ the World Health Organisation (WHO) said recently.

  • Brazilian President clears air on Coronavirus status

    Brazilian President clears air on Coronavirus status

    Brazil’s President, Jair Bolsonaro, who recently had dinner with US President Donald Trump has tested negative for coronavirus.

    A post on his Facebook page on Friday debunked earlier media reports that a first test had been positive.

    Bolsonaro and a large Brazilian entourage, including cabinet ministers, met with Trump and other senior U.S. officials last weekend at Mar-a-Lago. One of the party, Bolsonaro’s communications secretary Fabio Wajngarten, tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday and is in quarantine.

    The entire delegation, including Bolsonaro, was subsequently tested. It is not yet known if the results of any of the others have come back positive.

    “He tested negative full stop,” Bolsonaro’s son Eduardo told Fox News.

    Fox News had previously reported that an initial test had come back positive. Eduardo did not directly answer a question from Fox News as to whether that was the case.

    Trump said on Thursday he was “not concerned” about having come into contact with Wajngarten.

    CNN later reported he was worried, citing a source close to the U.S. president.

  • BREAKING: Brazilian President tests positive for Coronavirus

    BREAKING: Brazilian President tests positive for Coronavirus

    Jair Bolsonaro, Brazilian President has tested positive for coronavirus, the country’s Journal O Dia, reported.

    Bolsonaro’s aide Fabio Wajngarten tested positive for it on Wednesday.

    Recall that both men dined with President Donald Trump at his Florida’s Mar-a-Lago on Saturday night and shook hands with him. Wajngarten even took a photograph, in which he stood next to Trump.

    So far, the Brazilian leader has not shown any symptoms. The results of a second test are expected to be known on Friday, Mail Online reported.

    On Thursday, Trump brushed aside concerns about the encounter – the latest in a series of brushes the president has had with the highly-contagious disease.

    Trump and the first family have resisted going into self-quarantine despite other lawmakers who came into contact with those testing positive for the disease going into voluntary isolation.

    Other world leaders, too, are self-quarantining. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in a voluntary 14-day quarantine after his wife, Sophie, tested positive for the disease.

  • Brazil follows U.S. lead, to move its embassy to Jerusalem

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Brazil’s President-elect Jair Bolsonaro told him that it was a matter of “when, not if” he moves his country’s embassy in Israel to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv.

    The far-right Bolsonaro, who takes office on Tuesday and is hosting Netanyahu and the leaders of other countries for his inauguration, has said he would like to follow the lead of U.S. President Donald Trump and move the embassy.

    But he has come under intense pressure from Brazil’s powerful agriculture sector not to do so, as it could hurt Brazilian exports to Arab nations.

    Such a move by Bolsonaro would be a sharp shift in Brazilian foreign policy, which has traditionally backed a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

    The Arab League had told Bolsonaro that moving the embassy to Jerusalem would be a setback for relations with Arab countries, according to a letter seen by Reuters earlier in December.

    “Bolsonaro told me it was “when, not if” he moves the embassy to Jerusalem,” Netanyahu said on Sunday during a meeting with leaders of Brazil’s Jewish community in Rio de Janeiro.

    “We attach enormous importance to Brazil, and Brazil in the context of Latin America,” he added. “This heralds a historic change.”

    Netanyahu, who met with Bolsonaro on Friday, said that the Brazilian accepted his invitation to visit Israel, a trip that is likely to take place in March.

    Netanyahu is the first Israeli prime minister to visit Brazil.

    After he met the Israeli leader, Bolsonaro said that “we need good allies, good friends, good brothers, like Benjamin Netanyahu.”