"Brazilian police arrested former President Jair Bolsonaro on Saturday on suspicion he was plotting to flee and avoid a 27-year prison sentence for leading a coup attempt. Bolsonaro was convicted in September of trying to stay in power after losing his 2022 reelection bid. He is the first former president in Latin America's largest economy found guilty of attempting to overturn an election. He has denied wrongdoing."
"Bolsonaro's lawyers pleaded with Brazil's Supreme Court to keep him at home to serve his sentence, citing his poor health, but Brazilian law requires that all convicts start their sentences in prison. On Friday, Bolsonaro petitioned the Supreme Court requesting that he serve his prison time under house arrest, citing poor health. De Moraes on Saturday rejected the request, saying it became moot after the preventive arrest. The justice also recently revoked visitation requests to Bolsonaro."
Former President Jair Bolsonaro was arrested after Justice Alexandre de Moraes said his ankle monitor was tampered with; Bolsonaro's lawyers dispute that claim. Bolsonaro was convicted in September and sentenced to 27 years for trying to stay in power after losing the 2022 election, the first conviction of a former president in Brazil for attempting to overturn an election. A Supreme Court panel will vote on the preventive arrest order and can uphold or overturn it. Further appeals of the conviction remain possible before he begins serving the sentence. Bolsonaro had been under house arrest and is barred from running until 2030.
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