The US Treasury Department lifted sanctions Friday on Brazil Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who oversaw a trial of his country's jailed former president Jair Bolsonaro.

The sanctions were part of a series of punitive actions taken against Brazil by the administration of President Donald Trump, a longtime ally of Bolsonaro who had slammed the trial as a "witch hunt."

Moraes was sanctioned in July, and Washington took aim at his wife Viviane Barci de Moraes a few months later.

The sanctions against the couple and a company linked to their family were eased after efforts to repair diplomatic ties between Brazil and the United States, in a blow to Bolsonaro and his family who had lobbied hard for the measures.

A senior official from Trump's administration told AFP that "continu

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