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The ex-president faced questions astir whether a media quality violated a prohibition connected making societal media posts done 3rd parties.
Published On 24 Jul 2025
The Brazilian Supreme Court has confirmed it has nary plans to instrumentality erstwhile President Jair Bolsonaro into custody for now, aft it warned earlier this week helium could beryllium arrested for a imaginable usurpation of a societal media ban.
On Thursday, Justice Alexandre de Moraes described the incidental arsenic “isolated” and opted against an apprehension warrant.
De Moraes has overseen a lawsuit into whether Bolsonaro, a fashionable far-right figure, attempted a coup against the authorities of existent President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, pursuing his decision successful the 2022 statesmanlike election.
The lawsuit has been a flashpoint successful nationalist and planetary politics, with Bolsonaro’s supporters — among them, United States President Donald Trump — calling the prosecution politically motivated.
Bolsonaro has agelong denied orchestrating a strategy to clasp powerfulness aft his four-year word came to a adjacent successful 2023.
But prosecutors person accused the erstwhile president and his allies of scheming to topple Lula’s incoming authorities by undermining assurance successful the vote, declaring a authorities of exigency to suspend the government’s functions, and yet holding a caller election.
Bolsonaro ne'er publically acknowledged his nonaccomplishment successful 2022, and helium near the state astatine the extremity of his word alternatively than manus implicit powerfulness to Lula.
His supporters, meanwhile, stormed constabulary office successful the capital, blocked highways, and yet ransacked authorities buildings representing the presidency, Congress and the Supreme Court, successful an evident effort to spark a subject uprising.
In June, Bolsonaro testified for the archetypal clip successful the case, forcefully rejecting the allegations against him: “There was ne'er immoderate speech of a coup.”
Prosecutors, meanwhile, have pointed to testimony indicating that Bolsonaro had received and edited a draught from his allies for the declaration of emergency. They accidental Bolsonaro adjacent had a code prepared to denote the alleged coup.
The high-stakes proceedings has prompted a backlash from Trump, who threatened to enforce 50 percent tariffs connected Brazilian imports to the US, starting connected August 1, to unit an extremity to the prosecution.
In a missive announcing the tariffs, Trump called the proceedings “an planetary disgrace” and compared his myriad ineligible woes to Bolsonaro’s.
“This proceedings should not beryllium taking place,” Trump wrote. “It is simply a Witch Hunt that should extremity IMMEDIATELY!”
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro lifts his sound limb to amusement disconnected his ankle show successful Brasilia, Brazil, connected July 21 [Adriano Machado/Reuters]Justice de Moraes cited planetary unit arsenic helium imposed a suite of restrictions past Friday to chopped disconnected Bolsonaro’s interactions with overseas officials and curtail his movements.
Already, Bolsonaro’s passport had been confiscated, for fearfulness helium mightiness beryllium a formation risk. But to forestall him from fleeing abroad, de Moraes ruled that Bolsonaro should beryllium placed nether location apprehension connected nights and weekends.
In addition, the justness decided that Bolsonaro needed to deterioration an ankle show and cease posting to societal media, successful summation to severing interaction with overseas governments.
Since that time, however, Bolsonaro has made media appearances to amusement disconnected his ankle show and blast the Supreme Court’s decisions, excerpts of which person been shared wide connected societal media.
“This is simply a awesome of the utmost humiliation,” Bolsonaro said of his ankle monitor.
De Moraes accused Bolsonaro of having “delivered a code to beryllium shown connected integer platforms” and questioned whether it whitethorn person been a breach of the prohibition helium imposed.
He gave Bolsonaro’s lawyers a model of 24 hours to respond to his concerns and warned that a usurpation could effect successful Bolsonaro’s arrest.
Bolsonaro’s defence team, successful response, denied breaching the societal media prohibition and asked for clarity astir its scope. The prohibition had restricted Bolsonaro’s usage of 3rd parties to dispersed his messaging — but it was unclear whether quality media fell wrong that category.
In a tribunal filing connected Friday, de Moraes yet declined to detain Bolsonaro but warned that immoderate aboriginal violations of his restrictions would culminate successful his arrest.
He clarified that Bolsonaro is not restricted from giving interviews to quality outlets.
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Al Jazeera and quality agencies
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