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Brazil Detains Jair Bolsonaro After Electronic Monitor Breach as Judge Rejects Home Confinement

Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered preventive custody citing flight risk following a call for rallies by the former leader’s son.

Overview

  • Bolsonaro was taken into custody on Saturday while appealing his 27-year, three-month sentence for crimes tied to an alleged coup plot.
  • Judge Alexandre de Moraes denied defense requests for a so‑called humane home arrest and for visitation permissions.
  • Reuters reported Bolsonaro admitted on video that he tried to open his ankle monitor with a soldering iron, and police found the device damaged and replaced it.
  • De Moraes gave Bolsonaro’s lawyers 24 hours to explain the monitoring breach to the Supreme Federal Court.
  • At a Sunday hearing reported by G1, Bolsonaro said medication triggered a hallucination that led him to tamper with the device and he denied trying to flee.