A Brazilian judge on Saturday issued house arrest orders for 10 people who have been convicted and sentenced for taking part in a plot to keep former president Jair Bolsonaro in power after he lost the 2022 election.
The decision by Supreme Court judge Alexandre de Moraes comes just hours after authorities in neighbouring Paraguay arrested a former police commander who also had been convicted in the plot and returned him to Brazil.
Silvinei Vasques, the former director of Brazil’s Federal…
Source: Brazil judge puts coup plot convicts under house arrest after ex-police commander flees
