JAKARTA - Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro appealed to the Supreme Federal Court to review the 27-year prison sentence for his role in the coup attempt.
Bolsonaro served as president of Brazil from 2019 to 2023. He lost in the 2022 presidential election to Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
Reported by ANTARA from Sputnik, Tuesday, October 28, one week after the inauguration of the elected president, thousands of Bolsonaro supporters brutally stormed the Brazilian Congress, the Supreme Court, and the presidential palace on January 8, 2023.
Police arrested about 2,000 people that day.
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Earlier in November 2024, Brazilian federal police charged Bolsonaro and a number of former government officials on charges of trying to overthrow democracy through coup organizations and criminal networks.
Meanwhile, in early September, Brazil's Supreme Court found Bolsonaro, now 70, guilty of planning a coup and sentenced him to 27 years and three months in prison.
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