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Montevideo, August 17th 2025 - 06:23 UTC

Tag: Alexander De Moraes

  • Wednesday, July 23rd 2025 - 10:30 UTC

    Bolsonaro denies noncompliance with De Moraes' restrictions

    Bolsonaro's legal team asked De Moraes to specify what exactly their client can and cannot do

    Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro denied Tuesday any violation of the social media ban imposed on him by Supreme Federal Court (STF) Justice Alexandre De Moraes. The defense's statement came after the judge's ruling on Monday to give Bolsonaro 24 hours to explain his violation of the injunction, one of the measures imposed on him last week. Violation of the injunction could lead to Bolsonaro's preventive detention.

  • Wednesday, February 19th 2025 - 10:28 UTC

    Brazil's PGR indicts Bolsonaro and 33 others for coup attempt

    Bolsonaro carried out a “conspiratorial plot armed and executed against democratic institutions,” the prosecution argued

    Former President Jair Bolsonaro was indicted Tuesday by Brazil's Attorney General's Office (PGR) alongside 33 other people before the Federal Supreme Court (STF) for the crimes of coup d'état, violent abolition of the democratic rule of law, and criminal organization.

  • Friday, May 12th 2023 - 10:37 UTC

    Brazil: De Moraes orders Torres' release from jail

    The former minister must nevertheless wear an electronic anklet and is banned from leaving Brasilia

    Brazilian Supreme Federal Court (STF) Justice Alexander De Moraes Thursday ordered former Justice Minister Anderson Torres released from jail where he was under pre-trial detention for his alleged involvement in the Jan. 8 uprising in Brasilia.

  • Friday, May 5th 2023 - 10:38 UTC

    Brazil's Supreme Court lifts secrecy on Bolsonaro's alleged vaccination card fraud

    “President Bolsonaro will be available to the competent authorities, as he always has been, as soon as the defense has access to the records,” said Wajngarten

    Supreme Federal Court (STF) Justice Alexander De Moraes lifted the seal of secrecy from the probe into former President Jair Bolsonaro's alleged use of a fake vaccination card to enter the United States, Agencia Brasil reported. In the case, Colonel Mauro Barbosa Cid, a former aide of Bolsonaro's, has been placed under arrest.

  • Thursday, September 16th 2021 - 09:35 UTC

    Brazil’s STF suspends revisiting case involving ancestral lands

    Bolsonaro's nemesis De Moraes needs “more time”

    Brazil's Federal Superior Court (STF) Wednesday decided to call off debating a land case which involves requests from indigenous groups, at the request of one Justice, who asked for “more time”