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Brazil’s Top Court Says Jair Bolsonaro Must Stand Trial over 2022 Coup, Poisoning Plot

HeadlineMar 27, 2025

Brazil’s Supreme Court ruled Wednesday former President Jair Bolsonaro will have to stand trial for his involvement in a 2022 coup attempt after losing the presidential election to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. A federal police report issued last November accuses Bolsonaro of overseeing a plan to poison his rival, then-President-elect Lula, as well as to annul election results, dissolve courts and install a military dictatorship. Bolsonaro will face five counts related to the sweeping coup plot, which could result in decades of prison time.

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