Brazil’s former President Bolsonaro ordered to wear an electronic ankle monitor

By GABRIELA S PESSOA SAO PAULO AP Brazil s former President Jair Bolsonaro has been ordered to wear an ankle monitor bureaucrats reported on Friday in a move he described as a supreme humiliation Related Articles Trump s tariff pressure pushes Asia toward American LNG but at the cost of surroundings goals The EU and UK hit Russia with new sanctions Moscow s resource revenue and spies are targeted Christian patriarchs make rare visit to Gaza after deadly Israeli strike on church China pledges to crack down on illicit exports of rare earths urges US to lift more commerce controls Currently in History July Nadia s perfect The evolution came as federal police conducted searches at his home and his party s headquarters in Bras lia in compliance with a Supreme Court order The order prohibits Bolsonaro to leave the house at night communicate with foreign ambassadors and diplomats or approach embassies The former president is also barred from using social media or contacting other individuals under research by the Supreme Court including his son Eduardo Bolsonaro a Brazilian lawmaker who currently lives in the United States and is known for his close ties to U S President Donald Trump Bolsonaro is presently on trial at the Supreme Court accused of leading an alleged attempt to stage a coup to overturn the electoral process in which he was defeated by left-wing president Luiz In cio Lula da Silva It is a supreme humiliation Bolsonaro advised journalists in Brasilia after putting on the ankle monitoring I never thought about leaving Brazil I never thought about going to an embassy but the precautionary measures are because of that On Thursday Trump wrote to Bolsonaro describing his ally s healing by the Brazilian legal system as terrible and unjust This trial should end without delay the U S President explained adding that he strongly voiced his disapproval through his tariff protocol Brazil s former President Jair Bolsonaro leaves the Secretariat of Penitentiary Administration where he arrived after the Supreme Court ordered him to be fitted with an electronic ankle monitor in Brasilia Brazil Friday July AP Photo Luis Nova The Supreme Court s restrictions on Bolsonaro are part of a second assessment against Eduardo for allegedly working with U S executives to impose sanctions against Brazilian personnel Justice Alexandre de Moraes who is also the rapporteur of the event declared that the former president and his son s contemporary actions were blatant confessions of criminal conduct such as coercion during legal proceedings obstruction of investigations and attacks on national sovereignty Alexandre de Moraes doubled down Eduardo commented on X mentioning the order to the Supreme Court justice ahead of the criminal cases against his father His elder brother Sen Fl vio Bolsonaro disclosed on X Prohibiting a father from speaking to his own son is the greatest symbol of the hatred that has consumed Alexandre de Moraes Live aerial footage from local broadcasters presented federal police vehicles outside Bolsonaro s residence in Bras lia Federal police stand outside the Secretariat of Penitentiary Administration office where Brazil s former President Jair Bolsonaro arrived after the Supreme Court ordered him to be fitted with an electronic ankle monitor in Brasilia Brazil Friday July AP Photo Eraldo Peres Congressman S stenes Cavalcante the leader of Bolsonaro s party in the lower house communicated The Associated Press that officers also searched Bolsonaro s office at the party s headquarters He described the operation as another chapter in the persecution of conservatives and right-wing figures in Brazil A lawyer for Bolsonaro did not right away respond to a request for comment On Tuesday Brazil s Prosecutor-General Paulo Gonet commented in a overview to the Supreme Court that the evidence is clear the defendant acted systematically throughout his mandate and after his defeat at the polls to incite insurrection and the destabilization of the democratic rule of law Bolsonaro has described the trial on X as a witch hunt echoing a term used by Trump when he came to his South American ally s defense last week Last week Trump imposed a import tax on Brazil directly tying the tariffs to Bolsonaro s trial The U S president has hosted the former Brazilian president at his Mar-a-Lago resort when both were in power in Trump compared the Brazilian s situation to his own On Tuesday speaking to reporters at the White House Trump repeated the claim that the trial is a witch hunt A source at Brazil s Supreme Court announced selected justices have already made it clear among themselves that U S tariffs will have no effect on Bolsonaro s trial which is expected to resume between August and September The staffer spoke under condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly Mauricio Savarese contributed reporting in Sao Paulo Follow AP s coverage of Latin America and the Caribbean at 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