Brazilian police arrested former President Jair Bolsonaro on a preventive warrant tied to what the Supreme Court described as a possible attempt to flee as he awaited the start of a prison sentence for leading a coup plot.
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau posted on X in response to Bolsonaro’s arrest, saying, “The US is gravely concerned by his latest attack on the rule of law and political stability in Brazil: the provocative and unnecessary incarceration of former President Bolsonaro, who was already under house arrest under heavy guard and extreme limitations on communication.”
Landau noted that Brazil Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered the arrest. “There is nothing more dangerous to democracy than a judge who knows no limits on his power,” he wrote.
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