The former president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, has been sentenced to 27 years and three months in prison after being found guilty of plotting a military coup.
A panel of five Supreme Court justices handed down the sentence just hours after they had convicted the former leader.
They ruled he was guilty of leading a conspiracy aimed at keeping him in power after he lost the 2022 election to his left-wing rival, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
He’ll be 97 when he gets out, if he lives that long.
Good riddance.
FYI: South Korea’s former president got pardoned by her successor after her impeachment & removal & imprisonment. (The one back in 2017, not the recent 2024 one)
okay i’m taking notes. when we rebuild the republic, impeachments can’t be pardoned.
Eh, wouldnt be hard to get it reduced tbh, I doubt he will actually stay there for 27 years. But Ill take what I can get
You’d think attempting a coup would warrant a total block of any reduction in the length of sentence, but oh well.
The only thing that should be reduced is the length of the rope.
Think positive. He could be sentenced for more crimes he definitely committed
yup, nothing about the genocide yet. the 27 years was just about the coup attempt.
here’s hoping his sons can be next.
Will still be capped so even at 40 years max, his lawyers will be trying to get him released with 20 or less years in jail for good behavior or what not
20 or less will make him up to 90 years old. It’ll do.
Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road