Coup Plot
Stf confirms serving of sentences for coup plot
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Brazil's STF First Panel unanimously confirmed on Tuesday (25) Minister Alexandre de Moraes' decisions ordering the final judgment and immediate serving of sentences for the central nucleus of the coup plot. Jair Bolsonaro was sentenced to 27 years and 3 months in prison and will remain detained at the Federal Police Superintendency in Brasília. Other defendants, including former ministers and an admiral, also had arrests ordered.
General Augusto Heleno was sentenced to 21 years in prison for involvement in a 2022 coup plot. During a medical exam, he revealed living with Alzheimer's since 2018, a year before taking over the Institutional Security Office. His military history includes controversial episodes since the 1970s.
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The Supreme Federal Court's First Panel unanimously rejected Jair Bolsonaro's defense appeal on Friday (7) in the coup plot case, upholding his 27-year prison sentence. Allies of the former president, including Senator Flávio Bolsonaro and PL president Valdemar Costa Neto, reacted at the inauguration of a party headquarters in Atibaia, vowing responses to alleged persecution and betting on Bolsonaro's return to the presidency in 2026. Defenses of other defendants, like Walter Braga Netto, announced appeals including to international courts.