Brazilian Supreme Court judge puts Bolsonaro under full house arrest
發佈日期: 2025-08-05 20:10
TVB News
Brazil's Supreme Court has put former President Jair Bolsonaro under full house arrest ahead of his trial for an alleged coup plot.
A Supreme Court judge says Bolsonaro failed to comply with restraining orders imposed on him.
This follows rallies by his tens of thousands of supporters, one of which Bolsonaro addressed by telephone.
A musician plays the funeral march claming it is the death of freedom and democracy in Brazil.
Horns of a different kind as cars honk in protest over the order to place Jair Bolsonaro under full house arrest.
A convoy goes around the gated community of the former president where he will stay as he faces charges of trying to overturn the result of the 2022 election which he lost.
Charges Bolsonaro denies.
This man, another Bolsonaro supporter, says, "This needs to stop! Either the Senate acts or we will".
The media camp outside the 70-year-old's residence reporting on the latest twist in a story which is captivating the nation.
This appears to be the moment when the Supreme Court lost patience with the man who governed Brazil from 2019 to 2023.
Thousands of his supporters gathered on Copacabana Beach on Sunday to protest over the judiciary's treatment of the right-wing politician who was already electronically tagged and slapped with travel restrictions.
His family attended in Rio and addressed supporters.
Bolsonaro spoke to the crowds via his son's telephone because he was banned from leaving his house on a weekend.
Bolsonaro told the rally he was "giving them hugs for freedom."
Flavio Bolsonaro called the new ruling "persecution by the dictatorship" as hours later, his father's phones were seized by investigators.
Supreme Court Justice Alexandre De Moraes ordered Bolsonaro's full house arrest saying in his decision that the former leader had violated precautionary measures by spreading content through his family.
Bolsonaro's team will appeal.
The Supreme Court restrictions caused immediate reaction from the U.S. State Department.
It says: "Justice Moraes, now a U.S. sanctioned human rights abuser,continues to use Brazil's institutions to silence opposition and threaten democracy,putting more restrictions on Bolsonaro's ability to defend himself. Let Bolsonaro speak."
Donald Trump has hit Brazil with 50 percent import tariffs on most goods and asked for the "witch hunt" against his ally, Bolsonaro, to stop.
