Brazil’s Bolsonaro one step closer to prison after court rejects his appeal

The decision by Brazil’s Supreme Court on Friday to reject an appeal by far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro means the former army captain could be sent to prison as early as the last week of November, a court source told AFP. Bolsonaro was convicted in September of a failed coup plot against centre-left President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva after the former unionist’s narrow victory in the 2022 elections.