The former president is taken in the capital Brasilia days before starting his prison time for leading coup attempt.

Armored vehicles rumbling through narrow alleys. Rifle shots cracking in heavy crossfire. Helicopters and weaponized drones firing from above. Soldiers in military gear engaged in violent combat.

Twenty-five Brazilian police officers were found guilty on Saturday of killing 52 inmates during the 1992 riot at Sao Paulo’s Carandiru prison. Judge Rodrigo Tellini de Aguirre Camargo sentenced each ...

Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro has been arrested. This was reported on Saturday, November 22, by German Wave, ...

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — A panel of Brazilian Supreme Court justices sentenced former president Jair Bolsonaro to 27 years and three months in prison Thursday after convicting him of attempting a coup ...

A historic conviction: Brazil's Supreme Court delivers a majority vote to convict former President Jair Bolsonaro over a plot to overthrow the... Brazil's ex-President Bolsonaro sentenced to 27 years ...

Four inmates were killed in a Cascavel, Brazil prison riot overnight. Two were beheaded and the other was tossed from atop a building, plummeting to his death. The cause of death of the fourth inmate ...

SAO PAULO, Brazil -- Twenty prisoners are often stacked in a cell designed for five. Inmates, who on paper have a right to trial within 81 days, routinely stew in prison for six or seven months, or ...