Brazilian Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF) Justice Alexandre de Moraes over the weekend ordered the arrest of conservative former President Jair Bolsonaro after an incident involving Bolsonaro’s electronic anklet bracelet.

According to Bolsonaro’s medical team, Bolsonaro suffered an episode of hallucinations and mental confusion resulting from medications, which led to him using a soldering iron on the monitoring device.

De Moraes, sanctioned by the United States under the under the Global Magnitsky Act for his persecution of Bolsonaro and other conservatives, ordered police to arrest Bolsonaro at his residence in Brasília on Saturday, where he remained under a strict , near-draconian house arrest ordered by the Brazilian Justice in August. De Moraes justified the arrest

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