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Brazil’s Bolsonaro sentenced to 27 years after landmark coup plot conviction

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BRASILIA (Reuters) – Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was sentenced on Thursday to 27 years and three months in prison hours after being convicted of plotting a coup to remain in power after losing the 2022 election, dealing a powerful rebuke to one of the world’s most prominent far-right populist leaders.

The conviction ruling by a panel of five justices on Brazil’s Supreme Court, who also agreed on the sentence, made the 70-year-old Bolsonaro the first former president in the country’s history to be convicted for attacking democracy, and drew disapproval from the Trump administration.

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Source: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/brazil-supreme-court-justice-carmen-173424089.html


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