Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro leaves the DF Star hospital in Brasilia on September 14, 2025, after undergoing a series of medical examinations. PABLO PORCIUNCULA / AFP
Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro's lawyers on Monday, October 27, filed an appeal against his 27-year prison sentence for a botched coup bid after his 2022 election loss.
The far-right firebrand's lawyers allege "ambiguities, omissions, contradictions and obscurities" in the Supreme Court decision finding him guilty of attempting to oust President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, in a divisive trial that sparked the ire of US President Donald Trump.
Supreme Court judges have no deadline to examine the appeal arguments.
The plot envisaged the assassination of Lula, his vice president Geraldo Alckmin, and Alexandre de Moraes − one of the five Supreme Court judges deciding Bolsonaro's fate.
