Watching Bolsonaro heading to prison

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5. Latest

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/22/far-right-former-president-jair-bolsonaro-arrested-in-brazil


Brazil’s former far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, has been arrested at his villa in the capital, Brasília​, amid suspicions he was poised to abscond to a foreign embassy to avoid going to prison for masterminding a military coup.

In a brief statement, federal police confirmed officers had executed a preventive arrest warrant at the request of the supreme court. The 70-year-old politician was taken to a federal police base, 7 miles from the presidential palace he occupied from 2019 until 2022, when he lost the election and tried to launch a military coup.

The arrest of Bolsonaro, who had been living under house arrest since August, was ordered by the supreme court justice, Alexandre de Moraes, as a result of fears the former president might make a run for one of Brasília’s many diplomatic compounds to avoid punishment for the failed power grab.

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Have to wonder if he was going to be transported to a waiting warship.