Overview

• Justice Alexandre de Moraes escalated Bolsonaro’s detention after the ex-president defied a social media ban by video-calling supporters at a Copacabana rally.
• The full house arrest bars unscheduled visitors, enforces continuous home confinement and prohibits social media use while all of Bolsonaro’s cell phones have been seized.
• Bolsonaro remains under preventive detention during his trial for financing a conspiracy to obstruct justice in an alleged coup attempt.
• The video of Bolsonaro’s address was initially shared by Senator Flávio Bolsonaro on Instagram before being taken down hours later.
• Moraes described the video call as a deliberate breach of precautionary measures designed to pressure the Supreme Federal Court.