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March 27, 2025

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