https://www.scmp.com/rss/523203/feed The latest news and top stories on Eduardo Bolsonaro, the federal deputy for São Paulo since 2015, achieving a record number of votes in 2018. A lawyer and former federal police officer, he chairs the International Affairs and National Defense Committee. Bolsonaro is a key figure in right-wing populism, representing ’The Movement’ in South America and advocating for conservative principles. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse A Brazilian Supreme Court justice on Tuesday granted a request by former president Jair Bolsonaro to temporarily serve his sentence under house arrest after his discharge from a hospital for treatment of bronchopneumonia. “I authorise temporary humanitarian house arrest … for an initial period of 90 days,” Justice Alexandre de Moraes said in a court document, adding that the period could be renewed in case of medical necessity. The 71-year-old former far-right president was sentenced to 27 years... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/americas/article/3347769/judge-allows-brazils-bolsonaro-serve-27-year-sentence-home-due-ill-health?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/americas/article/3347769/judge-allows-brazils-bolsonaro-serve-27-year-sentence-home-due-ill-health?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 24 Mar 2026 18:51:01 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press Thousands of supporters of Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro demonstrated in cities across the South American nation on Sunday, as organisers hoped to build momentum for a right-wing victory in the coming presidential elections. Protesters draped in yellow and green – the colours of the national flag – took to the streets in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and the capital Brasilia to voice their opposition to current President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva who faces a tough re-election bid in... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/americas/article/3345058/supporters-ex-president-bolsonaro-rally-across-brazil-against-lula?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/americas/article/3345058/supporters-ex-president-bolsonaro-rally-across-brazil-against-lula?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 01 Mar 2026 21:54:13 +0000 Bloomberg Bloomberg Former Brazil president Jair Bolsonaro fell and hit his head during a “crisis” while sleeping inside his prison cell early on Tuesday, his wife said in a social media post. “My husband is not well,” Michelle Bolsonaro said, adding that the imprisoned former leader received medical attention only when he was called for her visit. Bolsonaro’s doctor said he suffered a mild traumatic brain injury and will undergo further tests, O Globo newspaper reported. Bolsonaro has been behind bars at Federal... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/americas/article/3338970/brazils-bolsonaro-has-brain-injury-after-falling-and-hitting-head-prison?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/americas/article/3338970/brazils-bolsonaro-has-brain-injury-after-falling-and-hitting-head-prison?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 06 Jan 2026 17:01:18 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Brazil’s Supreme Court has rejected former president Jair Bolsonaro’s request to convert his prison sentence for plotting a coup to house arrest, according to a ruling published on Thursday. Bolsonaro’s lawyers submitted the request on Wednesday, citing a “real risk of a sudden worsening” in health for the far-right ex-leader as the reason to serve his 27-year sentence at home. Bolsonaro, 70, has been hospitalised for more than a week after undergoing surgery for a groin hernia and then a... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/americas/article/3338431/bolsonaro-denied-house-arrest-brazil-supreme-court-despite-health-plea?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/americas/article/3338431/bolsonaro-denied-house-arrest-brazil-supreme-court-despite-health-plea?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 01 Jan 2026 14:45:43 +0000 Reuters Reuters Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro endorsed his son ‌Flavio’s 2026 presidential bid on Thursday in a statement from a hospital where he ‍underwent a scheduled hernia operation that doctors said went smoothly. Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes authorised Bolsonaro to leave prison, where he is serving a 27-year sentence for plotting a coup, for the surgery. Police were ordered to stay outside ⁠his room where computers and mobile phones were prohibited. Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, 44,... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/americas/article/3337746/brazils-bolsonaro-backs-sons-residential-bid-undergoes-hernia-surgery?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/americas/article/3337746/brazils-bolsonaro-backs-sons-residential-bid-undergoes-hernia-surgery?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 25 Dec 2025 18:55:05 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Thursday that he would veto a bill that could significantly reduce the 27-year prison sentence of former president Jair Bolsonaro, who was arrested in November for attempting a coup. The Senate passed the bill late on Wednesday, following approval by the Chamber of Deputies. “With all due respect to the National Congress, when it reaches my desk, I will veto it,” Lula told journalists in Brasilia, noting that those who committed crimes against... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/americas/article/3336970/brazils-lula-vows-veto-bill-slashing-bolsonaros-27-year-prison-term?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/americas/article/3336970/brazils-lula-vows-veto-bill-slashing-bolsonaros-27-year-prison-term?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 18 Dec 2025 18:09:41 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Brazil’s Senate on Wednesday passed a bill to slash the prison term of far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro, who was convicted of plotting a coup after losing re-election to left-winger Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Passed by the lower chamber last week, the bill now heads to Lula, whose expected veto could eventually be overridden by Congress. Bolsonaro, 70, began a 27-year prison sentence in November, and under current rules was expected to serve at least eight years behind bars before... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/americas/article/3336844/brazils-congress-passes-bill-cut-bolsonaros-27-year-prison-sentence?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/americas/article/3336844/brazils-congress-passes-bill-cut-bolsonaros-27-year-prison-sentence?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 18 Dec 2025 02:26:55 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Brazil’s Supreme Court on Monday voted to uphold the imprisonment of former president Jair Bolsonaro, who was detained over the weekend for tampering with his ankle monitor using a soldering iron. Bolsonaro was taken into custody on Saturday from his home, where he had been under house arrest after a judge declared him a flight risk as he appeals a 27-year sentence for plotting a failed coup. The far-right firebrand was convicted in September over a scheme to stop President Luiz Inacio Lula da... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/americas/article/3334003/brazil-court-votes-uphold-bolsonaro-jailing-after-attempt-flee?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/americas/article/3334003/brazil-court-votes-uphold-bolsonaro-jailing-after-attempt-flee?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 24 Nov 2025 17:26:24 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Brazil’s far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro is running out of options to avoid prison, after judges on Friday rejected his appeal against a 27-year sentence for a botched coup bid. Bolsonaro lost the 2022 elections and was convicted in September for his efforts to prevent President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from taking power after the polls. Prosecutors said the scheme – which included plans to assassinate Lula and a top Supreme Court judge – failed only due to a lack of support from... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/americas/article/3332918/brazils-bolsonaro-faces-imminent-arrest-judges-uphold-coup-plot-verdict?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/americas/article/3332918/brazils-bolsonaro-faces-imminent-arrest-judges-uphold-coup-plot-verdict?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 15 Nov 2025 07:41:50 +0000 Reuters Reuters The US on Monday imposed sanctions on the wife of the Brazilian judge who presided over the criminal case of right-wing former president Jair Bolsonaro and also yanked the visas of six high-ranking officials, as a months-long showdown between the Trump administration and the Brazilian government escalates. Widening the penalties targeting Brazil’s judiciary, the Trump administration imposed sanctions on Viviane Barci de Moraes, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, under... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/americas/article/3326446/us-targets-wife-brazilian-supreme-court-justice-moraes-sanctions?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/americas/article/3326446/us-targets-wife-brazilian-supreme-court-justice-moraes-sanctions?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 22 Sep 2025 19:19:50 +0000 Reuters 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. The ruling dealt 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... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/americas/article/3325257/brazils-bolsonaro-convicted-top-court-historic-coup-trial?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/americas/article/3325257/brazils-bolsonaro-convicted-top-court-historic-coup-trial?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 11 Sep 2025 19:05:58 +0000 Reuters Reuters Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Luiz Fux voted on Wednesday to acquit former president Jair Bolsonaro of forming a criminal organisation and voted to annul his trial over jurisdiction, breaking with peers and raising the odds of an appeal after the final verdict this week. The high court still seems likely to convict Bolsonaro of plotting a coup to remain in power after he was voted out of office in 2022. Two judges on the five-judge panel have already voted to convict, and the remaining two... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/americas/article/3325105/brazil-judge-votes-acquit-bolsonaro-coup-case-breaking-peers?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/americas/article/3325105/brazil-judge-votes-acquit-bolsonaro-coup-case-breaking-peers?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 10 Sep 2025 21:53:33 +0000 Reuters Reuters Two Brazilian Supreme Court justices on Tuesday voted to convict former president Jair Bolsonaro of leading a criminal conspiracy to overturn the 2022 election, as they cast the first votes in the final phase of the ex-president’s trial. The five-judge panel is now one vote away from a majority convicting Bolsonaro of orchestrating an attempted coup to remain in power after his 2022 electoral defeat to leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. The charges stem from a federal police... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/americas/article/3324956/first-5-judges-bolsonaro-coup-trial-votes-convict?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/americas/article/3324956/first-5-judges-bolsonaro-coup-trial-votes-convict?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 09 Sep 2025 20:06:58 +0000 Holly Chik,Laura Zhou Holly Chik,Laura Zhou Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for a unified response to trade challenges posed by the United States, emphasising the need to build an open global economy and resist all forms of protectionism as he addressed a virtual summit of the Brics group on Monday. “No matter how the international situation changes, we must unwaveringly promote the construction of an open world economy, share opportunities and achieve win-win outcomes through openness,” Xi told leaders of the key emerging... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3324783/chinas-xi-jinping-issues-rallying-call-against-protectionism-brics-address?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3324783/chinas-xi-jinping-issues-rallying-call-against-protectionism-brics-address?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 08 Sep 2025 13:03:48 +0000 Bloomberg Bloomberg President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Brazil is capable of governing itself without foreign interference and criticised local politicians who are encouraging “attacks” on the nation. “We maintain friendly relations with all countries, but we do not accept orders from anyone,” Lula said in a televised speech on the eve of Independence Day. “Brazil has a single owner: the Brazilian people.” Lula has accused Donald Trump of attempting to intervene in Brazilian affairs after the US president... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/americas/article/3324629/veiled-jab-trump-lula-says-brazil-doesnt-accept-orders-anyone?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/americas/article/3324629/veiled-jab-trump-lula-says-brazil-doesnt-accept-orders-anyone?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 07 Sep 2025 02:09:53 +0000 Igor Patrick Igor Patrick Chinese investment in Brazil more than doubled last year, reaching the highest level since before the pandemic, making the South American country the third main destination for Chinese capital worldwide, a business group report released on Thursday said. The report, released by the Brazil-China Business Council, said Chinese firms confirmed 39 projects in 2024 worth US$4.18 billion, a 113 per cent increase from the year before. The surge would make Brazil the leading destination for Chinese... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3324386/chinas-2024-brazil-investment-doubled-highest-level-covid-report?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3324386/chinas-2024-brazil-investment-doubled-highest-level-covid-report?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 04 Sep 2025 13:28:09 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Brazil’s Supreme Court vowed Tuesday not to bend to pressure from Washington in deciding the fate of far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro, a Donald Trump ally on trial for allegedly plotting a coup. Kicking off a five-day process of passing judgment in the final stage of the trial, presiding judge Alexandre Moraes said Bolsonaro had aimed to install a “real dictatorship”. Bolsonaro, 70, risks a prison sentence of 43 years if convicted of conspiring to cling to power after losing 2022... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/americas/article/3324111/brazil-judge-opens-bolsonaro-trial-vowing-defy-trump-threats?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/americas/article/3324111/brazil-judge-opens-bolsonaro-trial-vowing-defy-trump-threats?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 02 Sep 2025 20:30:02 +0000