Defence lawyers for the ex-president make their final arguments in the closing days of his coup trial in Brazil.
Lawyers representing former President Jair Bolsonaro have told a panel of five justices on Brazil’s Supreme Court that their client was denied a fair hearing on charges he plotted a coup d’etat.
A verdict in the case is expected within days. But on Wednesday, Bolsonaro’s defence team argued that anything other than an acquittal would be a miscarriage of justice.
Bolsonaro’s lawyers also questioned whether the trial had been rushed due to political motives.
“We did not have access to the evidence, and much less had enough time to go through it,” lawyer Celso Vilardi told the Supreme Court.
