Conservative former President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro was transferred Thursday to another prison in Brasília with better accommodations by order of Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF) Justice Alexandre de Moraes.
De Moraes, the controversial Justice who acted as rapporteur in the “coup” trial against Bolsonaro and who led a years long persecution and censorship campaign against him and other Brazilian conservative figures, reportedly stressed that despite the better accommodations, “it’s not summer camp.”
Bolsonaro, 70, was sentenced to 27 years and three months prison last year for his alleged role in a “failed coup attempt” that allegedly sought to overturn the results of the 2022 presidential election, in which a then-incumbent Bolsonaro narrowly lost against current socialist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Since November, Bolsonaro,
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