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Bolsonaro Taken Into Preventive Custody at Brazil’s Supreme Court Request

The move follows his 27-year coup-plot conviction as his lawyers seek house arrest on health grounds.

Overview

  • Federal police said they executed a preventive arrest warrant requested by the Supreme Court and moved Jair Bolsonaro to their Brasília headquarters.
  • An aide said officers took him from his home in the Jardim Botânico neighborhood at about 6 a.m. local time.
  • The detention is not the final imprisonment on his September sentence, which remains under appeal with no final order issued.
  • Local reports said the order aimed to maintain public order, while authorities had not released a detailed legal rationale.
  • Bolsonaro had spent more than 100 days under strict house arrest in a separate case, and his allies are pressing for home confinement on medical grounds as supporters prepare rallies outside police facilities.