Brazil's ex-President Bolsonaro ordered to start 27-year prison term
發佈日期: 2025-11-26 21:39
TVB News
Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro is starting a twenty-seven-year prison term for attempting a coup. The reaction in South America's largest country has been a mix of anger and jubilation.
The federal police headquarters in the capital of Brazil where Bolsonaro is currently incarcerated and will stay. Facing twenty-seven years behind bars for plotting a coup.
The former president in a twelve-metre square room since the weekend when he was taken into custody fearing he could flee amid planned protests.
Outside, small demonstrations calling for Bolsonaro to be let free.
"Anistia" - Amnesty for "political prisoners", this sign says.
These supporters say the charges and sentence are politically motivated and the ex-leader should not be in prison.
Opponents of Bolsonaro celebrating wildly.
Pro or anti-Bolsonaro taking differing stances on the Supreme Court ruling, arguing outside the building where the former Brazilian president is being held.
"We come and stand in defence of democracy," says Keit Lima, who, with other critics, never believed they'd see Bolsonaro jailed.
"They have uncorked champagne bottled made their chants and celebrated what they think is going to be a very long prison time for the former President Bolsonaro at these federal police facilities in Brasilia, said an AP reporter on the scene.
The seventy-year-old was found guilty in September of trying to change the result of the 2022 presidential run-off that he narrowly lost to Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
The Supreme Court dismissed claims from Bolsonaro's lawyers that their client was in poor health and should stay under house arrest as he had been since August.
The court say he is a flight risk amid reports he'd asked Argentina's President Javier Milei and Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban for political asylum.
His sons visited their father saying he is confused and vulnerable.
"Our doctor left his medications separated so he does not mix them he needs care for hiccups, we are concerned," Senator Flavio Bolsonaro said as he left after a half-hour visit.
His father's legal team were told no further appeals are possible.
