Taken into custody after over 100 days of house arrest, the ex-president faces a 27-year term for plotting a coup after the 2022 election loss.
Brazil’s Supreme Court ordered the pre-emptive arrest of former president Jair Bolsonaro on Saturday, days before he was set to begin his 27-year prison sentence for leading a coup attempt.
The embattled leader was taken to the headquarters of the country’s federal police in the capital, Brasilia, from his house arrest.
Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who oversaw the case, said in his ruling that the arrest “should be made with all respect to the dignity of former President Jair Messias Bolsonaro, without the use of handcuffs and without any media exposition”.
