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Sep 11 from https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/

Bolsonaro sentenced to over 27 years in prison for coup plot in Brazil

BRASÍLIA — Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro was found guilty Thursday of attempting a military coup to stay in power after his 2022 election loss, a plot that included plans to assassinate President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and was sentenced to more than 27 years in prison in a case that has roiled this young democracy and strained its relations with President Donald Trump. The 4-1...

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Sep 11 from https://www.theguardian.com/us/technology

What did Jair Bolsonaro’s trial reveal about an attempted coup in Brazil?

Brazil’s supreme court has made Jair Bolsonaro the first former president in the country’s history to be convicted for attempting a coup. The 70-year-old far-right leader claims he is the victim of political persecution, but three out of five judges concluded on Thursday that it was sufficiently proven that Bolsonaro and his close allies attempted to overturn the 2022 election, which he lost...

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Bolsonaro sentenced to 27 years for plotting military coup in Brazil

​Brazil’s former far-right president Jair Bolsonaro ​has been sentenced to more than 27 years in prison for plotting a military coup​ and seeking to “annihilate” the South American country’s democracy. Justices Cármen Lúcia Antunes Rocha and Cristiano Zanin ruled on ​Thursday that Bolsonaro – a former paratrooper who was elected president in 2018 – was guilty of seeking to forcibly cling to...

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