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Brazil's top court threatens Bolsonaro with arrest, demands explanation for order breach
BRAZIL, JUL 22 – Justice Alexandre de Moraes warned Jair Bolsonaro of arrest unless his lawyers justify breaches of social media bans amid investigations into alleged election overturn plots.
- A Brazilian Supreme Court judge has threatened Jair Bolsonaro with imprisonment for violating a social media ban related to coup allegations.
- Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered Bolsonaro to wear an ankle bracelet and banned his social media use due to coup plotting allegations.
- Moraes stated that any attempt by Bolsonaro to circumvent the ruling could lead to his arrest.
- Bolsonaro called the ban on his social media use 'cowardice' and asserted his intention to continue engaging with the press.
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After bypassing a ban on speaking on social media, Brazil's former far-right president was threatened with imprisonment. The judge ruled that this was a "isolated irregularity".
Brasilia. A judge of the Supreme Federal Court (STF, Supreme Court) of Brazil gave 24 hours to the lawyers of Jair Bolsonaro to explain the “infringement” of the prohibition to the former ultra-rightist president to demonstrate on social networks, “under penalty of ordering his immediate imprisonment”, according to a judicial document to which the Afp had access this Monday.
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