Brazilian Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF) Justice Alexandre de Moraes on Tuesday ordered conservative former President Jair Bolsonaro to begin serving his 27 year and three month prison sentence for “crimes against democracy.”

Bolsonaro officially began serving the sentence at the Regional Superintendency of the Federal Police in Brasília, where he remains detained since Saturday after tampering incident involving his electronic anklet bracelet.

“The defense allowed the deadline for new motions for clarification to pass without any response. Sentenced to 27 years and three months in prison, initially in closed custody, the former president will be held at the Regional Superintendency of the Federal Police in the Federal District, where he is already in preventive detention,”

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