Brazil's Bolsonaro guilty of coup charges, court majority decides in landmark trial

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Brazil's Bolsonaro guilty of coup charges, court majority decides in landmark trial

By Ricardo Brito, Luciana Novaes Magalhaes and Manuela Andreoni
September 11, 2025 2:50 PM EDT Updated 11 mins ago

RASILIA, Sept 11 (Reuters) - Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro was convicted by a Supreme Court majority on Thursday of plotting a coup to remain in power after losing the 2022 election, a powerful blow to the populist far-right movement he created.

The presumptive ruling by a majority of a panel of five justices in Brazil's Supreme Court makes Bolsonaro the first former president in the country's history to be convicted for attacking democracy.

Three judges so far have voted to convict, one acquitted, and one remains to vote.

The conviction of Bolsonaro, a former Army captain who never hid his admiration for the military dictatorship that killed hundreds of Brazilians between 1964 and 1985, echoes legal condemnations this year for far-right leaders elsewhere, including France's Marine Le Pen and the Philippines' Rodrigo Duterte.

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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazils-bolsonaro-guilty-coup-charges-court-majority-decides-landmark-trial-2025-09-11/

Alternate link: https://archive.ph/DwrFk

[marble falls]

1. I hope TACO's paying attention. It'll happen here, too.

[Jilly_in_VA]

3. From you'r keyboard to God's screen!

and I hope how soon, too!

[tblue37]

2. Maybe we should recruit the Brazilian Supreme Court!

[bagimin]

4. Maybe I should move there

I'm really uncomfortable here.

[tonkatoy8888]

5. It's always nice

to read about justice triumphant. Too bad we didn't seem to be able to get the wheels of justice turning so that we, too, could see justice done in the case of our attempted coup.

And another thing.

"...a powerful blow to the populist far-right movement he created."

An "atta boy" to Reuters for "far-right" and a question. Why doesn't the domestic press use the descriptive phrasing of "populist "far-right" as an everyday identifier of the Trump administration?