The Latest Breaking News from Jair Bolsonaro

The far-right leader was taken into custody on Saturday after attempting to break his ankle monitor

Ex-president to start serving term in 12 sq metre bedroom in police base in Brasília after time for appeals elapses

Brazil’s former president, Jair Bolsonaro, was taken into custody on November 22 after it was determined there was a “high risk” of him attempting to flee to a foreign embassy. The arrest took place as the Brazilian supreme court was analysing Bolsonaro’s final appeal against a 27-year prison sentence for…

Bolsonaro, 70, was arrested and kept in a cell at the country’s federal police headquarters in the capital, Brasilia

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Brazil’s former president says he took a soldering iron to electronic tag as he was hallucinating that it was bugged

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro will meet a judge on Sunday to discuss the legality of his imprisonment during his first full day of preemptive jailing at federal police headquarters

Brazilian former President Jair Bolsonaro is preparing to serve a 27-year sentence for attempting a coup

The former president remains under house arrest with an electronic bracelet, but according to local media, the court has ordered his transfer to prison as a precautionary measure and to maintain public order after a vigil was announced outside, amid suspicions that he may have attempted to escape.

Brazilian ex-president says he used soldering iron on device and is now in custody over fears he was going to abscond

Bolsonaro is an ally of U.S. President Donald Trump, who has called his trial a ‘witch hunt’