Politics
Brazil’s supreme court sentences Jair Bolsonaro to 27 years for plotting military coup – video
A five-member panel of Brazil’s supreme court formed a majority to convict the former president Jair Bolsonaro of plotting a coup to remain in power after losing the 2022 election. The presumptive ruling makes Bolsonaro the first former president in the country’s history to be convicted of attacking democracy
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