Overview
- The former Brazilian president received a 27-year sentence in September for leading a criminal organization that tried to overturn the 2022 vote.
- He had been under house arrest since August before being moved to custody on November 22, according to his attorney.
- His legal team petitioned the Supreme Court to allow him to serve the term at home, citing complications from a 2018 stabbing, a recent skin cancer diagnosis, violent hiccup episodes, and multiple hospital admissions.
- Prosecutors say the thwarted plan included assassinations of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Vice President Geraldo Alckmin, and Justice Alexandre de Moraes, and three military officers and a policeman were each sentenced to more than 20 years.
- The case strained relations with the United States, but Washington recently announced the lifting of high tariffs on some Brazilian agricultural products following renewed talks and a Lula–Trump meeting.