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Brazil’s Supreme Court Finalizes Bolsonaro’s 27-Year Sentence as He Begins Serving Time in Federal Police Custody

His conviction became final when his lawyers let the deadline for ordinary appeals pass.

Overview

  • Bolsonaro is now confined in a 12-square-meter room inside the Federal Police headquarters in Brasília, separated from other detainees.
  • The First Panel of the Supreme Federal Court confirmed preventive detention after he tried to damage his ankle monitor with a soldering tool, which the court treated as a flight risk.
  • The court declared the case closed and the verdict definitive, opening execution of the 27-year, 3-month sentence for leading a plot to block the 2022 transfer of power.
  • His defense argues the monitor incident stemmed from medication-induced paranoia, is seeking a return to home confinement on health grounds, and says it will pursue extraordinary remedies.
  • Political allies, including his son Flávio and the Liberal Party, are pushing a congressional amnesty for those convicted of golpismo, while co-defendant Anderson Torres is jailed and Alexandre Ramagem is cited as a fugitive in the United States.