Brazil Supreme Court Orders House Arrest For Bolsonaro

SAO PAULO (AP) – Brazilian Supreme Court ordered a house arrest for the former president on Monday Jair Bolsonaroallegedly in the declaration is being tried A coup plan that will remain in office despite its defeat In the 2022 elections – a case that confronts the South American country with a trade war with the Trump administration.

Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who supervised the case against Bolsonaro before the upper court, said that he had violated the precautionary measures given to him by spreading content through his son of the 70 -year -old former president.

Bolsonaro’s lawyers said he would object to the decision. “Good day, Copacabana, good day Brazil, hugging everyone, this is for our freedom – they said – during a market protest in Rio de Janeiro – one of his sons on the cell phone -“ measures or a criminal action will not be ignored.

The trial of the far -right leader after connecting US President Donald Trump directly attracts renewed attention. 50% tariff in imported Brazilian goods to the judicial status of the ally. Trump, trials “witch hunt“Trigger nationalist reactions from the leaders of all power branches in Brazil, including the president. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Hours after the decision, the US Department of Foreign Affairs Western Hemisphere Office X said that the Trump administration “Moraes imposes Bolsonaro’s house arrest and will keep all the supported and supported behaviors responsible”.

“Jair Bolsonaro’s self -defense ability to make a further restriction on the public service is not a public service. Let Bolsonaro speak!” The US Foreign Ministry said the organ.

The Brazilian government did not comment on the case.

The Brazilian prosecutors accuse Bolsonaro of chairing a criminal organization planned to overthrow the election, including plans to kill Lula and Justice De Moraes after losing the re -election offer in 2022 in 2022.

On Monday, the Emir of Monday ordered Bolsonaro to wear an electronic ankle monitor from the upper court last month and imposed a curfew on his activities while the proceedings continued.

Following the news about the arrest, a staff of Brazil’s federal police, Associated Press, federal agents Bolsonaro’s residence in the capital of Brasilia, as in the decision of Moraes, he said. The staff spoke on the condition of anonymity due to lack of speaking authority on the subject.

Bolsonaro is expected to stay in Brasilia under house arrest because it is not allowed to travel. He also has a house in Rio de Janeiro, which has held the election base as a deputy for thirty years. The former army captain is the fourth former president of Brazil, which will be arrested since the end of the country’s military administration from 1964 to 1985, supported by Bolsonaro.

The movement from the Brazilian justice is begging the Brazilian Congress to be tried in January 2023 in January 2023, a day after tens of thousands of Bolsonaro supporters took the streets in the cities of Sao Paulo and Rio.

On Sunday, Bolsonaro addressed the supporters in Rio with the phone of one of his sons, De Moraes, illegal.

“The disrespect to precautionary measures was so clear that the defendant’s son Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro, decided to remove the announcement in the Instagram profile to hide legal violations,” he wrote.

Flávio Bolsonaro claimed that Brazil’s father was officially in a dictatorship after house arrest. “There is no limit to the persecution of Moraes against Bolsonaro!” Senator wrote.

De Moraes added that Jair Bolsonaro, who ruled Brazil between 2019-2022, said, “The Supreme Court has emitted a message open to attacks against attacks and an incentive content and a clear support for the Brazilian judiciary with a clear support for external intervention in the judiciary.

De Moraes also said that Bolsonaro gathered to the protesters in Copacabana in Rio ,, so that his supporters can “try to force the Supreme Court”.

Last week, USA Treasury Department announced sanctions On Moraes claim that freedom of expression was suppressed About the trial of Bolsonaro. On Monday, the Western Hemisphere Office called the Brazilian justice as ışlık A Human Rights Addiction approved by the US ve and accused him of the use of institutions to silence the opposition and threaten democracy.

In his decision, Moraes said, “Brazil’s judiciary would not allow a defendant to be stupid”.

“Justice is the same for everyone. The second time – the second time – a defendant who will willingly will be subjected to legal conclusions,” he said.

Dharma, a Brasilia -based political counseling firm, said that the political risk and strategy of the political analyst Creomar de Souza, Bolsonaro’s house arrest opened a new moment to fight Lula’s re -election proposal for the country’s opposition.

“The 2026 elections look like turmoil,” he said, and the political debate in Brazil will probably be divided between two basic struggles.

“First, Bolsonaro fans are forced for forgiveness in the Congress or physically put themselves there, but the effort to be strong on the right,” he said. “Secondly, the Lula administration will try to show that the country is a government.”

“It’s just start,” he said.

The final decision from the upper court keeps Bolsonaro under the ankle, only allows family members and lawyers to visit him and seizes all his mobile phones from his home.

Lula was later imprisoned for 580 days under a prisoner of corruption, which was later thrown by the Supreme Court and referring to the prejudice of the judge in the case.

After Dilma Rousseff’s accusation in 2016, Michel TEMER, president, was arrested in 2019 in connection with a graft investigation for 10 days and ended without conviction.

Earlier this year, Moraes ordered the arrest of President Fernando Collor, who served from 1990 to 1992. The 75 -year -old former president was convicted of money laundering and corruption in 2023 and is now sentenced to more than eight years of imprisonment.

Hours after the order, the right -wing deputies criticized Moraes’ decision and compared Bolsonaro’s situation to the situation of their predecessors.

“House arrest for Jair Bolsonaro by Moraes. Reason: Corruption?” MP Nikolas Ferreira asked. “No. He published children’s content on social media. He’s pathetic.”

The far -right leader is already banned from next year’s elections by the country’s best election court due to abuse of power conviction.

Leftist deputy Duda Salabert, Bolsonaro’s house arrest increased Brazil’s democracy, he said.

“And those who attack him are to pay, Sal Salaber said.

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