The former president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, has been sentenced to 27 years and three months in prison after being found guilty of plotting a military coup.
A panel of five Supreme Court justices handed down the sentence just hours after they had convicted the former leader.
They ruled he was guilty of leading a conspiracy aimed at keeping him in power after he lost the 2022 election to his left-wing rival, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
He’ll be 97 when he gets out, if he lives that long.
Good riddance.
Eh, wouldnt be hard to get it reduced tbh, I doubt he will actually stay there for 27 years. But Ill take what I can get
You’d think attempting a coup would warrant a total block of any reduction in the length of sentence, but oh well.
The only thing that should be reduced is the length of the rope.
FYI: South Korea’s former president got pardoned by her successor after her impeachment & removal & imprisonment. (The one back in 2017, not the recent 2024 one)
okay i’m taking notes. when we rebuild the republic, impeachments can’t be pardoned.
Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road
@ United States of America, that’s how you fucking do it.
only beat me to the meme by, uh, 16 hours
As an American I find it difficult to understand how a working justice system can convict a criminal.
When Brazil respects democracy more than America.
We’re fucked, y’all.
We
Sounds like a 4% of world population problem.
From my perspective: So far the best SOAP that I ever watched. The episode yesterday with the gun sidestory was insane.
Brazil showing the U.S. how it’s done.
If the US had done this after Jan 6, they would have saved themselves a lot of trouble.
If the US had done this after Jan 6, they would have saved themselves
a lot of trouble.
Bolsonaro has been sentenced to 27 years and three months, Trump was elected for his second term. Now who is bigger democracy? Maybe because Brazil plays REAL football?
Life in prison effectively. If only we could start putting our leaders in jail for their crimes.
Brazil gets to sit at the table with Iceland on the list of countries who jailed the people responsible for almost torpedoing thier own country. (In Icelands case, it was the bankers involved in 2008s financial crisis)
The right wing is still powerful over there. The Supreme court judge who voted to acquit bolsanaro is still a member of the court. All it takes is a broken judiciary to enable fascism. And Brazil could easily go in that direction again if the fascists win control again.
MORE OF THIS!
Meanwhile Merrick Garland somewhere is sitting happy as a pig in shit.
I remember all the people on reddit in 2020 who were loudly insisting that Garland was just biding his time and making sure that the case against Trump was ironclad before moving against him. I’d say lol but it’s obviously not funny.
Americans:
It’s nice to see traitors held accountable for their actions. Maybe one day the US will take note.
How delicious.
So basically Brazil is less of a banana republic than the USA.
27 years seems pretty lenient given what he was convicted of. I realise that he’ll probably never be free given his age but I don’t think that the defendent’s age should affect the sentence, especially when they still have their supporters like Bolsonaro.
The age was taken into account.
<quote>never be free</quote>
Sweet summer child…
I thought he was in his 70s? Maybe you know more about the Brazillian justice system tho.
I’m not saying anything about his age. I’m assuming, which I maybe should not, about the politics of many political systems. I’ll give it 3 years, plus/minus 3 years.
You think they will parole him or convert it to house arrest?
Hahahahaha!
