FILE PHOTO: Judge Carmen Lucia attends the opening of the final phase of the trial of Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro, over an alleged plot to overturn the 2022 election, in Brasilia, Brazil, September 2, 2025. REUTERS/Jorge Silva/ File Photo
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was sentenced on Thursday to 27 years and three months in prison hours after being convicted of plotting a coup to remain in power after losing the 2022 election, dealing a powerful rebuke to one of the world's most prominent far-right populist leaders.
The conviction ruling by a panel of five justices on Brazil's Supreme Court, who also agreed on the sentence, made the 70-year-old Bolsonaro the first former president in the country's history to be convicted for attacking democracy, and drew disapproval from the Trump administration.
