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The decision was adopted unanimously by the four justices of the First Panel of the country’s highest court and establishes that the sentence must initially be served under a semi-open regime. Bolsonaro must also pay a fine of approximately 150,000 reais, or about $30,000, News.Az reports, citing UPI.
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According to Brazilian media reports, the conviction also entails the loss of his political rights under Brazil’s Clean Record Law, preventing him from running for office for at least eight years.
CNN Brasil reported that the total period of ineligibility could exceed 12 years, as it would begin to be counted after completion of the prison sentence.
Justice Alexandre de Moraes, the case’s rapporteur, said Eduardo Bolsonaro moved to the United States in February 2025 with the goal of promoting sanctions against Brazilian justices and pressuring the judiciary in an attempt to influence proceedings involving his father.
“It is not the role of a Brazilian federal lawmaker to lobby abroad against his own country,” De Moraes said during the session, according to Folha de S.Paulo.
According to CNN Brasil, Brazil’s Office of the Prosecutor General presented social media posts, public statements and conversations extracted from Jair Bolsonaro’s cellphone as evidence that Eduardo Bolsonaro acted to threaten members of the Supreme Federal Court and interfere in investigations related to the alleged coup plot.
The network also reported that prosecutors presented a conversation in which Eduardo advised his father to avoid statements that could undermine the efforts he was carrying out in the United States.
Eduardo Bolsonaro currently resides in the United States and did not attend the trial in person.
CNN Brasil reported that the former lawmaker did not appoint private attorneys for his defense or participate in the collection of testimony and was therefore represented by the Federal Public Defender’s Office.
The defense argued that Bolsonaro’s activities in the United States constituted legitimate political action and challenged the legality of the proceedings, alleging that he was never properly notified.
However, the justices rejected those arguments. According to CNN Brasil, De Moraes said Bolsonaro’s official registered address was in Brazil and that, after authorities failed to locate him, the court resorted to service by public notice, as provided under Brazilian law.
After the ruling was announced, Eduardo Bolsonaro described the proceedings as a “senseless trial” and argued that the decision is intended to remove him from Brazilian political life.
In a post published in English on his X account on Wednesday, Bolsonaro called on President Donald Trump to reimpose sanctions against Alexandre de Moraes.
“The world needs to know what is happening in Brazil,” the former lawmaker wrote, describing Moraes as an “authoritarian figure” and claiming he had been convicted for denouncing alleged human rights violations committed by the justice.
In a video posted on the same social media platform after the sentence was announced, Bolsonaro said he had been convicted because of the activities he carries out in the United States and reiterated that he was never formally notified of the proceedings.
The former lawmaker said Brazilian authorities know his residence in Dallas, Texas, and asserted that he learned about developments in the case through press reports.
He also questioned De Moraes’ participation in the trial, arguing that the justice acted simultaneously as both victim and judge in the case, a criticism previously raised by his defense during the proceedings.
The ruling can still be appealed before the Supreme Federal Court.
The conviction marks another legal setback for the Bolsonaro family.
Former President Jair Bolsonaro was sentenced last year to 27 years in prison for his role in an alleged conspiracy to overturn the results of the 2022 election, in which he was defeated by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
The decision also comes amid Brazil’s 2026 presidential campaign, in which Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, Eduardo’s brother, is considered one of the leading figures on the right seeking to challenge President Lula in the October election.
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Israeli officials further claimed that the two fighters were actively working to rebuild Hamas’s operational capabilities within the enclave. The military framed the targeted strike as a response to activities that violated the US-brokered ceasefire agreement that has been technically in place since last October, News.Az reports.
ELIMINATED: 2 Hamas terrorists who infiltrated Israel during the October 7 Massacre.
Those eliminated were:
– Ahmad Abu Hin, a Hamas military wing sniper cell commander
– Mahmoud Walid Jabr Abu Hin, a Hamas terroristThe terrorists have been involved in efforts to…
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) June 17, 2026
The incident highlights the deep fragility of the current truce. According to local reporting, at least 1,005 Palestinians have been killed in various military actions since the ceasefire was first enacted. Earlier this week, Gaza’s Health Ministry reported that the overall death toll in the enclave since the start of the conflict in 2023 has surpassed 73,000 people.
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Diezani Alison-Madueke, 65, was found not guilty after a trial at London’s Southwark Crown Court of five counts of accepting bribes and a charge of conspiracy to commit bribery, News.Az reports, citing BBC.
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Alison-Madueke was Nigeria’s oil minister between 2010 and 2015 and the first female president of the oil exporters group Opec.
The verdict is a blow for the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA), which had been investigating one of Africa’s most prominent political figures for 13 years.
From the start of the trial in January, defence lawyers questioned the fairness of the prosecution’s case, suggesting vital documents showing Alison-Madueke’s innocence had gone missing in Nigeria.
They also said the long delay in bringing the case to court was unjust and a sign of Britain’s “broken criminal justice system”.
Also cleared by the jury were Alison-Madueke’s older brother Doye Agama, 69, an archbishop at a Pentecostal church in Manchester, who was acquitted of conspiracy to commit bribery.
Oil industry executive Olatimbo Ayinde, 54, was found not guilty of bribery and bribery of a foreign public official.
She had faced prosecution despite being an informant in an anti-corruption probe by the Nigerian authorities.
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A surge in AI-driven demand for data centers has forced consumer electronics companies into a fierce competition for dwindling supplies of the key components, driving prices sharply higher, News.Az reports, citing Reuters.
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Groups representing automakers, retailers, electronic firms and others had warned earlier this month that the increasing demand for memory chips could lead to dramatic price hikes in U.S. consumer goods and disrupt supply chains.
“Unfortunately, price increases are unavoidable,” Cook told WSJ. “We’re doing our best to mitigate the huge increases that are being passed to us, and we’ve been trying to shield our customers from the increases, but the situation has become unsustainable.”
Cook, who will hand over the reins to John Ternus in September, did not disclose when or how much prices might rise, nor which products could be impacted.
Apple is reportedly on track to release its first foldable iPhone in September, alongside the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max.
Memory and storage costs are both concerns for the company, with particular emphasis on the DRAM market, Cook told the Journal. He noted that more supply is being allocated to high-bandwidth memory, which is used in AI servers.
“There’s less supply at a time when consumers want devices and the memory guys are passing along huge price increases,” he said. “We definitely need memory pricing and supply to return to reasonable levels for consumer products. That’s the bottom line.”
In the interview, Cook indicated that Apple is prepared to use its cash reserves to boost memory supply, without offering details. “We’re willing to use our balance sheet to help be a part of the solution,” he said. “Obviously, more capacity is needed.”
Cook clarified that Apple has no plans to use its cash and silicon expertise to build its own memory and storage factories.
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