Jair Bolsonaro ordered to start 27-year prison term for plotting Brazil coup
Criminal Justice,Jair Bolsonaro,Brazil,Politics
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Brazil's former president, Jair Bolsonaro, has been ordered to start serving his 27-year sentence in a 12 sq metre bedroom in a police base in the capital, Brasília, after his conviction for plotting a coup.
The far-right populist, 70, who governed Latin America's largest democracy from 2019 until 2022, was handed the punishment in September after the supreme court found him guilty of leading a criminal conspiracy to stop his...
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