Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro confirmed guilty: 27-year sentence
Brazil's Supreme Court upholds Bolsonaro's 27-year prison sentence for coup plot against Lula da Silva.
The First Chamber of Brazil's Supreme Court has formed a majority to uphold the 27-year, three-month prison sentence against former President Jair Bolsonaro, found guilty of leading a coup plot to prevent the inauguration of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The rapporteur of the case, judge Alexandre de Moraes, followed by his colleagues Flávio Dino and Cristiano Zanin, rejected the appeals presented by the defence of Bolsonaro and six other defendants, including former ministers Anderson Torres, Augusto Heleno, Paulo Sérgio Nogueira and Walter Braga Netto, as well as former Navy commander Almir Garnier Santos and deputy Alexandre Ramagem, at the time head of Abin, Brazil's intelligence agency.
When the fourth and final judge, Carmen Lúcia, has also voted by 14 November, the place of detention where Bolsonaro will serve his sentence will be decided.
According to local media, the former president could be sent to Papuda prison, in Brasilia, or to a Federal Police facility, as happened with Lula between 2018 and 2019, or remain under house arrest where he has been since August for health reasons, having been diagnosed with an intermediate grade carcinoma.
