Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

What triumphalist narratives about Brazil’s high court and Bolsonaro imprisonment leave out

(Version anglaise seulement)

par Tassiana Moura de Oliveira, Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science, University at Albany, State University of New York

On Jan. 15, 2026, Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered that incarcerated ex-President Jair Bolsonaro be given a significant upgrade in his prison accomodations.

Perhaps not a headline-grabbing development abroad, the news was nonetheless the latest high-profile interaction between Moraes and Bolsonaro – two titans of modern Brazilian politics whose sparring has, in many ways, served as a proxy for the broader…

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