Brazil’s Former President Jair Bolsonaro

Brazil’s Supreme Court on Saturday ordered the preemptive arrest of former President Jair Bolsonaro, days before he was set to begin his 27-year prison sentence for leading a coup attempt against the current government.

Bolsonaro, 70, who has been under house arrest since August, was taken to the headquarters of the country’s federal police in the capital, Brasilia. Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who oversaw the case, said the arrest “should be made with all respect to the dignity of former President Jair Messias Bolsonaro, without the use of handcuffs and without any media exposition."

Bolsonaro’s aide Andriely Cirino confirmed the arrest to The Associated Press, saying the former president was taken from his house in a gated communi

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