Brazil Supreme Court majority votes Bolsonaro should stand trial

Record ID: 1986735

  • Title: Brazil Supreme Court majority votes Bolsonaro should stand trial
  • Date: 26th March 2025
  • Summary: JABALIA, GAZA (MARCH 30, 2025) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF GAZANS PERFORMING EID PRAYER NEXT TO AL-KHULAFAA DAMAGED MOSQUE IN JABALIA, GAZA VARIOUS OF PALESTINIAN MEN PERFORMING EID PRAYER AMID DESTRUCTION (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) PALESTINIAN WOMAN, MINNATALLAH AL-FAR, SAYING: “We are here for Eid al-Fitr. We are here to celebrate the rituals of God amid the destruction and the sound
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  • Keywords: Alexandre de Moraes Brazil Jair Bolsonaro coup democracy supreme court trial
  • Location: VARIOUS LOCATIONS, BRAZIL/ INTERNET
  • City: VARIOUS LOCATIONS, BRAZIL/ INTERNET
  • Country: Brazil
  • Topics: Crime/Law/Justice,Judicial Process/Court Cases/Court Decisions,South America / Central America
  • Reuters ID: LVA003186726032025RP1
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  • Story Text: A majority of judges on Brazil's Supreme Court reviewing charges against former President Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday (March 26) voted for him to stand trial for allegedly conspiring to overthrow the government after he lost a 2022 election.
    The first three members of a five-judge panel voted to put Bolsonaro on trial. If found guilty in a trial expected later this year, Bolsonaro could face a lengthy prison sentence stretching over two decades.
    Bolsonaro, a far-right former army captain who served as Brazil's president from 2019 to 2022, is accused of five crimes, including an alleged attempt to violently abolish the democratic rule of law and a coup d'etat.
    The Supreme Court began reviewing charges against Bolsonaro and seven of his closest allies on Tuesday (March 25) in a session that Bolsonaro voluntarily attended, sitting silently in the first row in an echo of U.S. President Donald Trump's trial last year.
    Bolsonaro has insisted he will run for president again next year, despite a ruling by Brazil's Superior Electoral Court that barred him from running for public office until 2030 for his efforts to discredit the country's voting system.
    (Production: Renato Spyrro, Sergio Queiroz, Anna Portella)
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