Brazil’s Supreme Court orders Bolsonaro to be transferred to a maximum security prison

Constant complaints from the Bolsonaro family about the conditions in which the family patriarch is being held at a police station in Brasília have led Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes to order his immediate transfer. The magistrate ordered on Thursday that former President Jair Bolsonaro, a retired army captain, be transferred to the maximum-security prison complex in Papuda, also in the Brazilian capital. The far-right politician will initially be placed in a wing designated for military personnel and officials, but will first undergo a medical examination to determine if he should be transferred to the prison hospital.

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