Brazil’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that former president Jair Bolsonaro’s coup conviction was final, with no more appeals allowed, clearing the way for him to begin serving a 27-year sentence.
Bolsonaro, 70, was in September convicted over a scheme to stop leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from taking office after the 2022 elections, and that included an assassination plot.
The Supreme Court rejected an appeal to his sentence earlier this month, and ruled the judgment was now final.
The former army captain who fired up Brazil’s conservatives to become president in 2019 and reshaped the country’s politics will now have to serve the lengthy jail term.
Bolsonaro had been under house arrest until Saturday, when he was detained at police headquarters in the capital Brasilia for tampering with his ankle monitor using a soldering iron.