Overview

• Four of five justices voted to convict and moved directly to sentencing, imposing 27 years and three months on Jair Bolsonaro and finding several ex‑ministers and military officers guilty.
• Prosecutors secured convictions on charges including attempted coup, attempted abolition of the democratic rule of law, membership in an armed criminal organization, qualified damage and destruction of protected public property.
• Evidence cited by the court included draft decrees and cooperating testimony from ex‑aide Mauro Cid, with prosecutors framing the January 8, 2023 ransacking of Brasília’s institutions as the conspiracy’s climax and alleging assassination plots against top officials.
• Bolsonaro remains under house arrest and did not attend hearings, and with only one dissenting vote recorded, STF rules leave his pathway to a full‑court appeal narrowly constrained.
• Allied lawmakers are pushing an amnesty bid as international fallout grows, with U.S. measures such as punitive tariffs and criticism of Brazilian justices heightening tensions.