{"id":1494,"date":"2025-08-05T15:23:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T15:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/?p=1494"},"modified":"2025-08-05T19:14:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T19:14:16","slug":"brazil-supreme-court-orders-house-arrest-for-trump-ally-bolsonaro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/index.php\/2025\/08\/05\/brazil-supreme-court-orders-house-arrest-for-trump-ally-bolsonaro\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil Supreme Court orders house arrest for Trump ally Bolsonaro"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brazil\u2019s Supreme Court on Monday ordered<\/a> former President Jair Bolsonaro to be placed on house arrest for the remainder of his ongoing trial<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Bolsonaro is facing legal repercussions for allegedly staging a coup<\/a> to upend his 2022 election loss<\/a> to current President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva.<\/p>\n

Justice Alexandre de Moraes accused Bolsonaro, who is an ally of President Trump, of using the social media accounts of his three sons to attack the country\u2019s Supreme Federal Court, violating court conditions.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe covert participation of Jair Messias Bolsonaro, preparing pre-fabricated material for demonstrations and social media, clearly showed that he maintained the illegal conduct of trying to coerce the Supreme Federal Court and obstruct justice, in blatant disrespect for previously imposed precautionary measures,\u201d Moraes wrote, according to People\u2019s Dispatch<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Over the weekend, the embattled former leader joined demonstrations across Brazil via telephone. His lawyers argued that the words he used did not reference the court or violate standing conditions.<\/p>\n

They said he told protestors, \u201cgood afternoon, Copacabana, good afternoon my Brazil, a hug to everyone, this is for our freedom,\u201d according to The Associated Press<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The State Department\u2019s Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs backed Bolsonaro in a post on social platform X<\/a>, condemning Moraes’s newest order.<\/p>\n

\u201cPutting even more restrictions on Jair Bolsonaro\u2019s ability to defend himself in public is not a public service. Let Bolsonaro speak!\u201d the bureau wrote.<\/p>\n

Their statement follows Trump\u2019s decision to impose a 50 percent tariff<\/a> on Brazil and sanctioning of<\/a> Moraes last week, after the president called the trial a “witch hunt<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Despite rebukes from the Trump administration<\/a>, the Brazilian justice has pressed ahead.<\/p>\n

In his opinion Monday, Moraes alleged Bolsonaro used social media and contacted other defendants despite outlined restrictions writing that \u201charsher measures\u201d were needed to dial back the former president.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs with any precautionary measure imposed by the judiciary, restrictions on the use of social media cannot be circumvented by illicit schemes that, through \u2018digital militias,\u2019 political supporters, or other defendants, continue to propagate the same unlawful act,\u201d the judge wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brazil\u2019s Supreme Court on Monday ordered former President Jair Bolsonaro to be placed on house arrest for the remainder of his ongoing trial. Bolsonaro is facing legal repercussions for allegedly<\/p>\n

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