Brazil puts Jair Bolsonaro under house arrest after a massive anti -government demonstration
Police placed on Monday evening the former conservative president Jair Bolsonaro under house arrest by order of the Supreme Federal Court (STF), Alexandre de Moraes, for having allegedly broken the restrictions imposed on him after the sons of Bolsonaro published images of him on social media.
The police seized the mobile phones of the former president and rod He using any other telephone device, including that of his wife Michelle Bolsonaro or any third party. De Moraes also prohibited Bolsonaro from receiving visitors to his residence in Brasília, with the exception of family members and lawyers. Visitors cannot record or take a photo of Bolsonaro during the visit. The failure to comply, judged Moraes, would lead to the imprisonment of Bolsonaro.
De Moraes made the residual order one day after the subscribers of the former president gathered Sunday, through 62 Brazilian cities to protest peacefully against Moraes and the Radical President on the left Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The demonstrators also expressed their gratitude to President Donald Trump for human rights sanctions imposed Against Moraes in response to his continuous persecution and his censorship conservative voices in Brazil.
According to For Brazilian points of sale, Moraes justified the residual assignment on the grounds that Bolsonaro would have used social media platforms in coordination with his sons and supporters to distribute “clear content encouraging and inciting attacks against the Federal Supreme Court and ostensibly supporting foreign intervention in the Brazilian judiciary”.
In July, from Moraes imposed A strict curfew on the former president and forced to wear an ankle instructor. De Moraes has also prohibited Bolsonaro from using social media and has imposed a long list of restrictions on its civil rights as part of a series of “precautionary measures”. Bolsonaro faces dubious accusations of having allegedly plotted to organize a “coup d’etat” and cancel the results of the 2022 presidential election, in which Lula was of little Bolsonaro.
“There is no doubt that there was a violation of the precautionary measure imposed on Jair Messias Bolsonaro, because the accused produced materials for publication on the social media accounts of his three children and all his supporters and his political supporters,” said Moraes’ decision read.
Bolsonaro did not participate in the national events on Sunday, because the curfew imposed by Moraes prohibited him from leaving his residence on weekends. Instead, the former president followed the event of his home by his phone.
Sunday, the eldest son of Bolsonaro, the senator Flávio Bolsonaro, would have has published a short video now deleted from his father on his personal Instagram account. According to the Brazilian Outlet G1, Flávio briefly put Jair Bolsonaro on the speaker to speak to the crowd gathered in Rio de Janeiro. A few moments later, the Brazilian senator published a video on Instagram showing the other side of the call in which former President Bolsonaro would have said to his supporters: “Hello, Copacabana. Hello, My Brazil. A hug to everyone. It is for our freedom. We are together.”
G1 detailed The fact that Moraes supported home resistance orders by citing the Instagram publication of Flávio Bolsonaro as well as other publications and videos of social media published by the other sons of Bolsonaro on Sunday. The judge also mentioned a video call between Jair Bolsonaro and the Brazilian legislator Nikolas Ferreira while Ferreira was at the rally organized in São Paulo.
“The secret involvement of Jair Messias Bolsonaro in the preparation of prefabricated material for dissemination during demonstrations and on social networks has clearly demonstrated that he had continued his illegal conduct,” wrote Moraes, “to try to force the federal supreme court and obstruction to justice, in the flagrant inconvenience of the precautionary measures previously imposed.”
“The political supporters of Jair Messias Bolsonaro and his sons deliberately used the declarations and participation of the accused – although by telephone and on social networks – to spread the attacks and encourage the demonstrators in the clear intention of pressures and to force this Supreme Court,” continued the text.
The member of the Brazilian Congress Eduardo Bolsonaro, another of the sons of Bolsonaro who asked for politics asylum In the United States, published a brief declaration in Portuguese in which he declared that his father had been arrested for supporting the demonstrations against Moraes and because “my brothers and I published photos of him”.
“An arrest without crime, without proof, without trial. Just an abuse of power to silence the head of the Brazilian opposition. Brazil is no longer a democracy. The world must take note,” said Eduardo Bolsonaro.
The exit metropolis reported That a group of supporters of Bolsonaro gathered in a television tower in front of his residence in Brasília to protest peacefully against the last judicial decision of Moraes. Another group of supporters made the streets of Brasília on Monday evening to lead a procession against the STF judge.
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The Bolsonaro legal team shared a brief statement with the local media refuting the accusations of Moraes and rejecting the allegations of justice according to which Bolsonaro violated the ban on social media, stressing that speaking during a demonstration is not a criminal act.
“The sentence” Good afternoon, Copacabana. Hello, Brazil. A hug to everyone. It is for our freedom. We are together “cannot be understood as a violation of a precautionary measure, nor as a criminal act”, the Bolsonaro legal team saidAnd added that they will appeal against the residential resistance decision.
The US State Department sentenced Bolsonaro’s arrest in a brief declaration published in both English And Portuguese,, Stressing that the United States will hold everyone who helps and encourage sanctioned driving.
“Judge Moraes, now aggressive of human rights sanctioned by the United States, continues to use Brazil institutions to silence the opposition and threaten democracy. Putting even more restrictions on Jair Bolsonaro’s ability to defend himself in public is not a public service. Let Bolsonaro speak! ” The declaration read.
Christian K. Caruzo is a Venezuelan writer and documents life under socialism. You can follow it on Twitter here.
