Brazil's top court rejects Bolsonaro's coup sentence appeal, affirming his 27-year penalty for post-election power grab.
Brazil’s top court rejects Bolsonaro’s coup sentence appeal, affirming his 27-year penalty for post-election power grab.
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A five-member panel of Brazil’s Supreme Court has formed a majority to reject former President Jair Bolsonaro’s appeal challenging his 27-year prison sentence for plotting a coup to remain in power after the 2022 presidential election.
The sentence handed to the far-right politician last month has become a major issue in Brazil-US relations.
The 70-year-old former president is currently under house arrest.
Sentence comes shortly after a majority of justices voted to convict the former Brazilian leader on five charges.
The far-right leader's lawyers allege 'ambiguities, omissions, contradictions and obscurities' in the Supreme Court decision…
Brazil's former leader has exhausted his appeals and will start his prison term at a police station in Brasilia.
The ex-president was sentenced to more than 27 years in prison for trying to foment a coup after his election loss.
