Five of Brazil’s 11 Supreme Court justices will decide in the next three weeks whether former President Jair Bolsonaro and 33 others charged by the country’s prosecutor-general with attempting a coup

Q: On February 18, Brazilian prosecutors charged former President Jair Bolsonaro with overseeing an aborted scheme to poison Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and retain power despite losing the 2022 election. The charges were not unexpected, and Bolsonaro was already banned from running in 2026. Still, this feels like a big deal, no?

Two years and ten days after a mob of his partisans invaded and trashed Brazil’s houses of government, the law has come for Jair Messias Bolsonaro. The former far-right president of Brazil stands accused,

President Donald Trump’s media company is suing a Brazilian Supreme Court Justice in an unusual case that ties in first amendment rights, international law, and internal Brazilian politics.

For a man charged with masterminding an attempted coup and banned from public office, Brazil's far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro appears remarkably serene about his political future. He is also trying to get Congress to reduce his ban on running for office until 2030,

Brazil’s attorney general accused former President Jair Bolsonaro of overseeing a scheme to try to hold on to power. The Supreme Court will decide whether he is arrested. By Jack Nicas Jack ...

The charges against Bolsonaro stem from the former president’s attempt to overturn his 2022 presidential election loss against President Lula da Silva.

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been charged with plotting a 2022 coup, a case that could impact his political future. He seeks legislative changes to remove bans that prevent politicians from running for office,

Brazil's prosecutor-general on Tuesday formally charged former President Jair Bolsonaro with attempting ... Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and kill a Supreme Court judge. Prosecutor-General Paulo Gonet alleges that Bolsonaro and 33 others participated in ...

Jair Bolsonaro pictured after an interview last ... “contrary to the result of the popular will at the polls”. The Supreme Court will analyse the charges and, if accepted, Mr Bolsonaro will ...